Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...form. Like the sculptors of the Roman tribunes, his primary con cern is the search for character. The roster of Davidson subjects includes Anatole France, Feodor Chaliapin, Charles Gates Dawes, John Joseph Pershing, Wellington Koo, Woodrow Wilson, Marshal Foch, Georges Clemenceau. He went to the Versailles Peace Conference to see faces. When he forgot his pass he acted as a messenger in order to enter the hall where the intricate, fascinating lineaments of statesmen were gathered in clusters. He rose in his seat to peer at Clemenceau. There were cries: "Sit down! Sit down!" Heads turned, international business ceased...
...abound. His works are scattered worldwide, varying in subject from The Descent from the Cross in Paris, to The God Pan on Columbia University's campus. In London stands his gaunt Abraham Lincoln, focus of livid controversy, of which Theodore Roosevelt said: "I have always wished I might see...
...hated the dark. "Bright lights," he would say, "gimme de bright lights. So she dragged him to a dry knoll, wiped his eyes of the slime, then struck West toward escape. A great buzzard flapped over her?omen of evil?and when she reached a clearing she could see a cloud of his fellows in waterspout formation pointing like a finger down to the knoll in the swamp. She was betrayed. In an agony of fear and bafflement Hagar of the massive torso and puny wit, surrendered to her fate. But suddenly a beautiful idea dawned: "A nigger killin' heself...
...University five meets the Lowell Textile Institute at 8 o'clock tonight in Hemenway Gymnasium. The Harvard starting line-up will probably be the same as that which faced Dartmouth last Saturday, and the five substitutes used in that contest will also see action against Lowell...
...instructors. As the gap widens between lecturer and student the tutor's position becomes increasingly important and increasingly difficult. And at the same time it becomes always more impossible for the tutor to discharge his teaching functions in odd moments stolen from research. Unless the future is to see more emphasis placed upon instruction than on publication, unless tutors, in particular, are to find effective teaching as good a guarantee of promotion as rapid book production, the value of Harvard's educational efforts is in danger of suffering serious decline...