Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mahonri Young, sculptor, gave proof "to the public" at the Anderson Galleries, Manhattan, that art is a trade and a craft and that "there is nothing mysterious about being an artist." Before 300 amused spectators he worked 50 pounds of wet clay into "a sketch of Joseph Peennell," etcher (TIME, Jan. 14). Both chatted continuously...
...have resolved to give this little sketch further circulation, I do it to give a little pleasure to those who, burdened by the material misery of every day life in Germany, seek to save themselves by a glimpse into the broad "out there," which God's nature always' opens to the seeking mind. The Vossische Zeitung, Berlin Socialist journal, commenting upon this foreword, said that the public must appreciate the fact that the book was written by the Crown Princess before the War, and that she has not, like "most writers from the former higher regions, learned...
Included in this group is a book which Professor Norton characterized as "the chief treasure of Harvard College." It contains the report of the earliest recorded meeting of the Harvard Corporation dated 1643. In the middle of the first page of this report there is a rough sketch of the college seal, which was originated at that meeting. Two diaries of University officers in the early eighteenth century, and a book of the body of laws made, for the college in 1734 complete a case of absolutely unique documents...
Oliver M. Sayler has sailed triumphantly through the dangerous sea of contemporary criticism in his latest book, "Our American Theatre". His motive in writing this chronicle "has been to sketch in the highlights of this period and to make our American Theatre live through intimate studies of the men and women who have been responsible for its record". Carefully and with much patience, he must have collected the amazing data in the book. And with equally amazing skill, he has presented his story. For the most part one is not conscious of the facts and theories, but is swept along...
...voice that extols the straight and narrow path with gracious sincerity and compelling logic. And similarly, the address on Elisha Benjamin Andrews, one time president of Brown University, gives opportunity for the exercise of Mr. Meiklejohn's talent for description of character and achievement; it is a character sketch of real merit. In "The Machine City", an address made at a Pawtucket anniversary, one finds again the ability to treat a hackneyed subject from a fresh and charming point of view, that reverses the usual adage concerning anticipation and realization...