Word: sectional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...termed old stuff and could as well be found in a school text book. However, in the next chapter, "The Workshop," the author chooses from a vast supply of poems sent to him for anaylsis, and spends his time tearing them apart with specific criticism. This is an excellent section for it shows as clearly as possible the differences between goods poetry and bad, standing side by side and phrase by phrase. But it is unfortunate that the author did not analyze some free verse, which he later criticizes as aimlessness and experimentalism, and show precisely its shortcomings...
...body of U. S. folk art, which nobody even in the U. S. paid much attention to until a generation ago, there are 17 paintings. Also largely unfamiliar or forgotten in Europe are many of the choice 18th and 19th Century paintings. It is in the 20th Century section of the show, however, that Parisians will find an interest which the British Exhibition at the Louvre conspicuously lacks...
...moves to help the hard-pressed railroads (carloadings last week were 30% under those of a year ago). Added to the list of proposed emergency laws was the first draft of a bill presented by Labor Executive George Harrison to allow railroads to reorganize without entering the courts under Section 77 of the Bankruptcy Act. This section, the roads' only present recourse when they go to the wall, is so phrased that not one of the 25 Class I roads to try it has succeeded in reorganizing because bondholders have been unable to agree with stockholders as to which...
Things are not so good for the Old Woman either. Last year Joe Nuelle left her to become president of Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co. and shortly afterward, she filed under Section 77 of the Bankruptcy Act. There is another rumor around the Stock Exchange and roundhouses: She may be divided up piece by piece among other Eastern roads, and a large piece will go to Delaware & Hudson...
Today's bill at the University can be recommended to the Harvard public in general, but it is recommended to History 1 section men in particular. They raised an eyebrow at "The Buccaneer"; they are being currently horrified by "Marco Polo," but "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" is a research job. As a piece of social documentation it is unexcelled even by the work from which it was taken, every item in the sets having been checked for historical authenticity...