Word: panoramas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University of Clermont-Ferrand. During the War he served as captain, won the Croix de Guerre, Médaille de Léopold II. Since 1921 he has spent alternate years in France and the U. S. lecturing at Columbia, Chicago, Northwestern, Iowa State universities. Other Fa books: A Panorama of Contemporary French Literature, The Revolutionary Spirit in France and America at the Close of the Eighteenth Century, Since Victor Hugo: French Literature of Today. Franklin was the December choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club...
...building code. His colleagues number 220, chosen by the Merchants' Association of New York to represent the public in future hearings on the building code. A city within a city is Brooklyn's great Bush Terminal. There are piers, warehouses, factories, railroad lines and terminals, a vast panorama of industry that unrolls itself over 20 acres of South Brooklyn waterfront. This industrial city has a daytime population of 35,000, its own police force, and its own courts for the settlement of internal disputes. It is the creation of one man, Builder Bush. "Dreamer" and "visioner" are two words sadly...
Chicago's smart visitor today knows Quigley's place, under the bare forearm of the Palmolive Building. He hears crack dance bands at the Drake, drinks his drink in the gaudy Balloon Room. But the historical panorama of Chicago reveals scenes far more polychromatic...
Commissioned by the Obregon socialist-labor government to decorate buildings in a way peons could comprehend, he painted many frescoes devoted to a panorama of Mexican life. One of the charges against him is "desecration of public buildings" by use of "figures which, while not lacking in artistic perfection, nevertheless prove a shock to the conservative tastes of certain classes...
...above). The Literary Guild's was The Wave. Acclaimed a work of genius, The Wave succeeds in being at least unusual. Its 625 pages rehearse the Civil War without telling a connected story, but through 90 separate "stories." Authoress Scott's purpose: to make an impressionistic panorama of people then and how they felt. Her method recalls John Brown's Body, the Civil War in blank verse by Stephen Vincent Benét. Like Poet Benét, Authoress Scott did her writing in foreign countries...