Word: projects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...purple patches and golden numbers of New York World's Fair publicity was any mention of contemporary art. Outraged artists last year made a stink about this, persuaded Fair President Grover Aloysius Whalen to make room for an art exhibition under the seasoned direction of the Federal Art Project's Holger Cahill (TIME, April 25). Since then a modest, good-looking building has gone up and U. S. artists and museum directors have gone ahead with a national competition to select 800 works...
Having received the benediction of Dean Chase and President Conant, the Radio Workshop is now well launched on its official career. In the last fifty years no Harvard extra-curricular project has given such promise of future significance; incorporating as it does some of the best brains--faculty and undergraduate--in the University's English, Music, Government and Physics departments, it presages an era of Harvard leadership in the development of radio technique which may well parallel the ascendancy of Professor George Baker's 47 Workshop in the field of the drama...
...suggestion that Harvard dig more deeply into its corporate packet and allocate funds for a new purpose, is always suspect on grounds of practicability--however laudable the project may be. Occasionally, however, the phenomenon of a constructive reform which is also inexpensive, comes to light; and in the need for a Center of Romance Civilization, such a combination is to be found...
Like all of the Radio Workshop programs these will not only be profiled on the air but will be recorded. Supervising the project is James Laughlin IV '39, Sidney Sulkin '39, and Alan Harrington...
...Lowell House conceived the idea of a "symposium," consisting of student impersonations of great men of the past. In this way it was possible, for example, to portray the repercussions of Darwinian thought on economics, philosophy, literature, and religion of the nineteenth century. Last week a similar project, built around Marxist theory, was so successful that it stimulated a heated audience discussion of Stalin and Trotsky, and recreated the exciting days of the 20's when control of the Party in Russia was still in doubt. If proof were needed, that debate proved that the "symposium" method of inter-field...