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...Realm of the Senses. Having lived under wraps so long, Colette went straight onto the music-hall stage, where she threw off the wraps with a vengeance. In mimes and dances she displayed "[first] her uplifted bosom, and then the whole of her harmonious nudity." But she continued to write, too, and her subject matter was as nude as her mimes. The world of the senses became Colette's special province, and she proceeded to map it with audacious knowingness...
Under the philosophy upon which this nation was founded, a great educational system has developed and flourished. At its apex is the realm of higher education where the responsibility for furthering the routes of truth and knowledge rests more heavily than in any other area, of the educational system. In the realm of higher education the American right to question, to explore, to express, to examine and re-examine, is of necessity exercised continually. Were it not so, our diverse intellectual resources would become stagnant...
...widow of William Rust, longtime (1930-49) editor of London's Communist Daily Worker; he for the third time, she for the second; in London. When Philipps succeeds to his father's title, he will become the House of Lords' first Communist member, his wife the realm's first Communist peeress...
...Realm of Light. The retrospective show, covering 27 years of Sculptress Hepworth's work, provoked some murmurs of dismay from the critics. The Manchester Guardian complained that her carvings were "cold austerities [which do] not rouse any emotion much stronger than deep respect." But the Observer hailed the skill with which "she contrives to impart [life] to her obdurate materials." One thing that the show demonstrated clearly was that she has moved sharply away from her early preoccupation with natural forms toward a colder, more mathematical expression of idea and feeling. It also showed her close artistic affinity with...
...girl in the Leeds School of Art. Later they went to the Royal College of Art together, got simultaneous scholarships for further study abroad. Says she of that experience: "There had been something lacking in my childhood in Yorkshire, and that was light . . . Italy opened for me the wonderful realm of light...