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...brusque manner, make him seem a tall little man. A conversation with Sorokin requires an effort to keep up with his wit, and when he gets serious, an effort to grasp what he is talking about. For him, the best art, literature, and music was produced before the nineteenth century. Enough of a cosmopolite to prefer Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart to Tchaikovsky and Rimsky Korsakov, smoke English instead of Russian cigarettes, keep cases of French wine in his cellar instead of scotch or vodka, and obtain American citizenship in 1930, he is nevertheless simple and quiet in taste, abhorring social...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Profile | 4/22/1941 | See Source »

Another technicolor saga of nineteenth century industrialism bites the dust at the U.T. this week. After the Pony Express and the first railroad had made several western trips on the screen, it remained for some producer to string the first continental telegraph. "Western Union" serves this purpose, without doing much more than that. Replete with Indians, bison, love interest and a dudish Harvard graduate, it is hardly epic, but does provide a pleasantly wool-tingling story...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 3/28/1941 | See Source »

...half courses on Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama will be known as English 25a and 25b, and will displace the present courses given by Levin which are courses on the nineteenth century novel, and a course on Proust, Joyce, and Mann, known as English 6 and English...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENGLISH DEPT. WILL CHANGE SIX COURSES | 3/21/1941 | See Source »

...English Department suggests that students who wish to study the novel in the periods covered by the courses which Levin is ommitting will want to take English 5a, the eighteenth century novel, and English 5b, the nineteenth century novel. George W. Sherburn, professor of English, will give the first of these courses, and David Worcester, Faculty instructor in English, will give the second...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENGLISH DEPT. WILL CHANGE SIX COURSES | 3/21/1941 | See Source »

...March the main exhibitions will be of illuminated manuscripts from the library of J. Pierpont Morgan '89, paintings of the Barbizon School, American water colors of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and examples of Chinese and Japanese woodblock prints from the seventh century to 1940 and the tools used to make them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fogg Sponsors New Spring Activities | 2/28/1941 | See Source »

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