Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Claire, once almost a channel swimmer, turns up on one of the smaller islands, but chafes under the obvious intentions of its two male citizens, and dives off in the wake of departing seagulls, just as a renewed upheaval submerges the island anyway. An overnight's swim brings her to company less aggressive but very dull, so after a few weeks' rest she swims off again-in search of a mate. Him she finds in Martin, erstwhile lawyer, who is quickly adapting himself to the laws of nature-storing up loot for the winter, beating off dogs that...
...pictures represent rather a general undercurrent of taste that has remained definitely French, persisting through various vicissitudes, absorbing much of the point of view of the extreme experimenters and revolutionists, but still maintaining its characteristic lightness and deftness of touch. Thus the influence of the great innovators is obvious in much of the painting, now Renoir, now Cezanne, now Matisse or Rousseau or some other modernist; but beneath it all one seems to feel a rather definite and uniform assumption and attitude toward painting that most of the artists have adopted consciously or unconsciously. It seems to be recognized that...
...reaction to the intense broken color used by the impressionists to express a naturalistic effect of light. As compared with most American and British painting done in the same vein, there is a pleasant lightness of touch in most of these pictures. After our over-seriousness, even the obvious "fooling" in examples like the "Europa" and the "View of the Seine" are a delightful relief...
...becoming more and more obvious that Horatio Alger was born long before his time. This ingenious concocter of a better class of dime novels furnished vicarious thrills by mere inherited dukedoms and paltry thousands of dollars--and no doubt shuddered to think what an exaggerator he was. But the Luke Larkins of his fiction are simply run off their feet by the financial leaders of this...
...editorial in yesterday's issue of the Harvard CRIMSON is indeed a direct and sincere answer to the question raised in the Daily Herald regarding whether or not the advantages and benefits to be derived from Harvard new rotation schedule policy are great enough to offset the obvious disadvantages...