Word: rome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Walking up & down the lines of monumental canvases, critics felt that modern Italian painting had not yet shaken off its shroud. Artists included Giorgio ("Horses") de Chirico, whose work is more frequently identified with Paris than with Rome; Playwright Luigi Pirandello's son Fausto; and the pride of Bologna, Giorgio Morandi, who ponders life so deeply that in his 46 years he has produced less than 20 pictures, most of them still lifes of bottles, candlesticks, tea cups...
Four new courses, organized since the Course Catalogue for 1936-37 went to press, have been announced by the Fine Arts Department. They are survey courses designed to fill the gap between Fine Arts 1d, which covers the history of European art from the Fall of Rome to modern times in a half year, and those dealing with fairly specialized subjects...
...good education in Indian Government schools, was staked to courses at the University of London and Columbia University by the highly democratic Gaekwar of Baroda. Dr. Ambedkar is probably the only man alive who ever walked out in a huff from a private audience with the Pope of Rome. His Holiness Pius XI having heard from Dr. Ambedkar about the miseries of Indian outcastes, replied: "My son, it may take three or four centuries to remedy these abuses, be patient...
...stranger to other shores is Dr. John Hathaway Spencer, 28, Grinnell '29, who has just taken up residence in Addis Ababa as new adviser on international affairs to the Ethiopian government. He was born in Rome, son of Edward B.T. Spencer, professor of Greek at Grinnell since 1916. Twice as his father's assistant he made European tours. After postgraduate work at Harvard, he received fellowships that enabled him to study a Paris and Germany...
Emphasis of Hail, Caesar! is less on politics or persons than on war. Author Pratt denies that Caesar was ever a pervert, even for policy; he mentions Caesar's mistress Servilia only in passing. For Caesar's rapid imposition of New Deal legislation on Rome he has nothing but implicit praise. Two-thirds of the book is devoted to a play-by-play account of Caesar's campaigns-a summary which leads Author Pratt to the surprising conclusion that Caesar "never became great as a soldier.'' He was not even a good soldier; his tactics...