Word: seene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which a skillful restorer can similate the surface quality of an old master is seen in the painting of the "Pieta" by Carlo Crivelli, a 15th century Italian artist. The whole central portion of this picture was destroyed, and early in the 20th century restoration was undertaken by an able Italian artist, who entirely repainted the center portion, following other original works by Crivelli, and imitating the master's materials and technique very closely. Even with the X-ray it is hard to tell where Crivelli's work leaves off and the modern artist's begins, but by careful observation...
...opportunity for fruitful discussion can be seen from the subject-heads of these tables; government revenue and expenditure, maintenance of employment, and competitive enterprise. Problems of this sort have been occupying an ever wider place in the normal discussions of students during recent years, and observers of the changing collegiate attitude have pointed optimistically to the increased interest in such serious topics...
...have seen "Blossom Time" twice. When we were ten years old we fidgeted so much our uncle had to remove us bodily from the theatre in the middle of the performance. Last night we sat through the entire production with a good deal more enjoyment, only fidgeting in occasional spots. "Blossom Time" blossomed forth about as well as any tragic, sentimental light-opera could before an audience accustomed to mock-serious musical comedies on the order of "Red Hot and Blue," or "On Your Toes...
...there is an unsteady little lyric soprano quavering like a sad ghost pleading for reincarnation." Wrote Daily News Critic Eugene Stinson: "She had command neither of voice nor of breath: Panic seized her and for three hours the public watched one of the pluckiest fights the theatre has ever seen. Mme Galli-Curci's vocal estate improved but in the end it had not yet attained a suitable degree of competency." Few days later Critic Stinson heard some records she had made shortly after her failure, crowed: "Galli-Curci CAN sing. . . . There can be nothing wrong with the singing...
...starting up a hundred promising stories that he does not follow. Nothing holds the characters together except that they all live in Tuttle, so that whenever readers grow interested in one individual he fades into the crowd, leaving an impression as confusing as glimpses of a rush hour as seen by a stranger in town...