Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...being shown at the Fogg Art Museum is of the greatest interest, not only for the study of Italian woodcuts, but as showing the beginnings of the art of book illustration. In these first illustrated books the book page was regarded as a unit, with text and illustration in perfect harmony. The pictures in general were not intended to apply to a particular passage of the text, but were illustrations of some principle of episode which would serve to arouse the reader's religious emotions. Certain stock illustration appear therefore in different books in different connections. The blocks became worn...
...comeback in the last few minutes of play. Grantiand Rice in the New York Tribune writes that "Princeton won because at the finish the Tiger had more stuff in reserve than Harvard had and was better fixed for a whirlwind rally. Gilroy's long run would come off without perfect interference...
...Paine's "First Down, Kentucky" would have been even more perfect if he had only deferred the writing a month or two. Since the book's publication Centre has succeeded in beating Harvard and we understand that "Bo" MecMillin has become engaged...
...gorgeous Bakst settings and costumes! Korsakow is always remarkably effective with the orchestra, no matter if at times he sounds banal on the pianoforte. The combination of the barbaric splendor or Russian folk-music and oriental sensuousness never fails to charm; his orchestration will forever serve as a perfect model. It is a pity then to think that he is only known to us through "Scheherazade", "Capricco Espagnol", and "LeCoq d'Or", when there are some fifteen other operas and ballets totally unknown outside of Petrograd, Moscow, and Paris...
Lenin he described as a man heart and soul with the cause of liberty. he is rigidly honest. Mr. Steffens declared, and is working only for the cause of the freedom of the masses. He admits that his government is neither democratic nor perfect, but it is his assumption that all governments are wanting in many senses, so that the ultimate rule will be by industry, not by governments...