Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sketch Entirely by Kent...
...like a misunderstanding by Colonel William Marcus of the exact provisions for the awarding of these prizes. Separate prizes were awarded for typography, display-line writing etc. This prize was awarded for 'pictorial illustration as the chief means of conveying its message. I am ready to offer the original sketch for the advertisement in question to show that no changes were made by any of Marcus's advertising men. The conception and the execution of this picture were entirely my own. Did Mr. Bok give the awards for business houses or for individual artists and advertising men? If I obtain...
Judas. That Basil Rathbone is an able actor there is no doubt, but his part in writing this ineffectual piece should dictate to him the confines of his metier. He is not a playwright. Obvious, intermediate lines try without success to sketch Iscariot as a better man, really, than Bible History makes him. He who is hard of hearing would enjoy the personable cast, the good settings by Jo Mielziner, but the hard of hearing go to the cinema...
...Mount Auburn Street and the Charles River should be considered which is not the result of long study, and of planning ahead for the future," writes Chairman Pond. After stating its hypothesis of a new and second Yard, the Council report reads, "The plan attached is merely a rough sketch intended to portray the Council's ideas. It does not pretend to be final or entirely accurate. The whole scheme should be gone over by competent architectural and landscape advisors. It is the basic idea which we consider sound." By advancing in this concluding paragraph practically the same major premise...
...Nichols' protest is more convincing. In a lively and intentionally overdrawn sketch of Harvard life thirty years from now he brings into sharp relief many of the absurdities of the House Plan as it is envisaged by its present supporters. The scheme of arbitrary assignment to Houses in accordance with the idea of a cross-section composition for each calls forth the following remarks from a proselyting member of Unit C: "When your application blanks come you must on no account mention Unit C." "Why?" "Because the dean will think you want to join the units you list because...