Word: seene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whatever this may mean as art, the exhibitors did not dilly-Dali over it. Into the tank they plunged living girls, nude to the waist and wearing little Gay Nineties girdles and fishnet stockings. Swimming, grimacing, doing the Suzy Q, milking the cow, playing the "piano," these Lady Godivers, seen at close range and a trifle water-magnified, should win more converts to surrealism than a dozen highbrow exhibitions...
...Royal couple passed down the line, exchanging a few words with each man and woman. Their remarks reflected their own condition: "You must be tired. . . . You must be simply dead. . . . You must be glad you are going home. ..." A woman reporter told the Queen that she had never seen anyone with the power to give such happiness. The Queen blushed, murmured her thanks. "It is very kind of you to say that about my wife," added the King...
...regretfully report that misgivings on the part of younger members of the Faculty, as well as of many older members, are more widespread and deeply rooted than over. The past few weeks have seen an unparalleled furry of administrative section in declared application of the principles of your report. The most debatable parts of the report have been put into precipitate operation: others have been neglected...
...putting into effect the recommendations of the report there has been still less effort to foster the development and expression of Faculty opinion than there was in adopting it. . . . it is safe to say that no other period in the history of the University has seen so many final decisions, respecting the future of such promising scholars, reached in so short a time. . . . To the fact of such decisions no objection, of course, can be made. But merely to state their number and the speed with which they have been reached is to state also that the deliberative procedures envisaged...
...other springs, beautcous as this one? Will there not be other friends and things to do? But no. No. They will never again be quite like this. You see, this is the end of something--the final wind-up. This is what has brought intensity to everything seen and done. And this very intensity of enjoyment has banished satisfaction--even as the lover cannot enjoy a parting kiss when he knows he will yearn in the future for the lips he now feels. The future--new kisses, new surroundings, new interests--is too remote to cool present emotions...