Word: sameness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fountains wreathed with water babies, alabastrine goddesses and war groups in battling bronze were the common stuff of U. S. sculpture before Primitivism came in and chiseled its ears off. Lately critics have observed that from that chastening sculptors as a class have emerged with a burst of modest but...
The animal is placed inside a big squirrel cage which revolves when the creature runs. A faint musical tone sounds, followed after a short interval by a mild electric shock administered through the bars of the cage. If the animal runs the turning of the cage switches off the current...
Malraux's masterpiece, Man's Fate, stayed close to the history of the Shanghai revolution of 1927, in its final chapters reached heights of intensity so moving that the book immediately took its place with the best of post-War fiction. In Man's Hope Malraux follows...
The Conquerors was an immediate critical success but sold badly. Living with his wife and two servants in a little apartment on the Rue du Bac - four rooms filled with Khmer statuary, Oriental books and hand-painted Persian linen panels on the walls - Malraux remained as secretive in Paris as...
Of the attitude of James Landis, Dean of the Law School, to Communist opposition to Plan E, Hicks said, "Landis resorted to the same cheap red-baiting methods as the politicians."