Word: scene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fifth anniversary last week, PWA proudly pointed out that it had brought forth 25,000 permanent improvements on the U. S. scene. For the first 2,000 projects of its 1938 program, which include everything from a subway for Chicago to fleet moorings for the Navy, the following amounts of materials would be ordered in the next few months from U. S. industry...
...year-old mistress of vast, gloomy, allegedly haunted Glamis (pronounced Glarms) Castle in Scotland, legendary scene of Macbeth's murder of Duncan, died of heart disease last week in London. She was the hardworking, domestic, society-shunning Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, wife of the 83-year-old 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne. Descendant of England's famed Cavendish and Bentinck families, the daughter of a clergyman grandson of the. third Duke of Portland, the Countess was the mother of ten children, six of them still living. By far her most noted child is England...
...with Cezanne, who "broke away from nature." Imitation cannot reproduce nature, says Ozenfant, but equivalents can; a composer of music does not try to capture nature by imitating animal sounds, but by writing a pastoral symphony. In his landscapes, Cezanne did not try to reproduce the appearance of the scene he painted, but to recreate in paint the emotions that the scene produced on him. The Cubists went further, tried "to evoke emotions by the exhibition of colored forms" which did not "look like" anything in particular. But Ozenfant showed (by photographs of cubistic and surrealistic-like scenes from modern...
...mysterious Rockne crash (TIME, April 6, 1931). But at that point a telephone extension buzzed. He caught up the receiver. From across 3,500 miles of sea came a familiar voice. "Hello, momma," boomed Fokker happily, and in mingled English and Dutch described to his mother in Holland the scene on New York City's Harlem...
...peculiar horror. This is supplied by Ungern-Sternberg's cruelty toward his own officers (he humors the rank-&-file, who dote on him). The high point of his officer-discipline is when he flogs an officer who has shot two Cossacks, then burns him at the stake-a scene which puts all stories of lynching in the primer class...