Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent pictures only "Camille" has a romance comparable to that in "Beloved Enemy." The actors convey an impression of intense love though outwardly they are restrained and indignified. To the mind of the reviewer the bicycle ride through the country is one of the finest and most tender love sequences of any movie. The highest praise is lavished upon the two charming and polished actors, upon the director, and upon the cameraman. They have made an unforgettable picture...
...book's most telling denunciation of modern painting comes not from Mrs. Logan but in a quotation from Critic Henry Rankin Poore, who to her great delight wrote : "At a recent exhibition of an interesting group of French 'Moderns' . . . was a small picture by Matisse of a sauce pan containing two broken eggs lying on a spotted cloth. . . . The eggs had dark brown shadows and even to the uncritical eye of man appeared doubtful. . . . On inquiring the price, it was found to be $5,000. . . . Let us appraise the components of the transaction: Canvas $1.00 Pigment...
...operation in Europe are: 1) exceedingly inefficient retail distribution ... 2) class loyalty to their own institutions given by repressed industrial workers, who in Europe are not as migratory and mobile a class as in the U. S.; 3) a deeply ingrained thrift or savings motive . . . and 4) in recent years, strongly financed central co-operative wholesales able to promote new local societies or assist struggling ones. These factors are absent or relatively absent in the U. S. today...
Professors claim that when examinations students are the most interesting people in the world, for their and attitudes range from to joy--though seldom, latter. One professor, Wisconsin's J. Salter, minicammed his students during recent test...
...correlation with the feature article of the forthcoming April issue, the program will include a talk by Seymour E. Harris, associate professor of Economics, who will weigh the forces affecting business and market conditions. Particular emphasis will be put on ways and means of preventing a recurrence of the recent depression in the wake of the incipient boom...