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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greatest height when he paints violent confluent; and the eternal struggle of good and evil, the major theme of both works, provides him with a wonderful opportunity for an objectification of his most intense mystical passions. The idea of a series of paintings allows Blake to produce a sort of drama with his brush, a drama whose conflict ends in a religious purgation of evil. The resolution is also joyous and lively, for in the last of the Job series the harps and horns are taken down from the trees, and the books are thrown aside...
...anything new. During their first few weeks in the Yard, eagerness, hunger, sheer boredom, or some more nebulous force usually impels Freshmen Union-ward just at the hour when the great dining hall first opens its maw. A short period of acclimation, as a rule, yields wisdom of a sort and customers begin to appear in a regular flow from opening to closing hour. But this year with the orientation past, the lines remain...
...College's quarter-century-old Student Council struts its own New Look. Stretching forth tentacles to encompass enterprises involving upwards of $145,000 this year, its scope alone frightens former members who served in a sort of noblesse oblige tradition...
Despite a title of the sort which usually forecasts another romantic comedy, this re-release tells admirably of Lord Nelson's simultaneous battles against various enemy navies and sundry social conventions. A little doctoring of the history books provided Alexander Korda with a vigorous tale about the intrigue between Nelson and Lady Hamilton, and Laurence Olivier then combined with Vivien Leigh in contributing the dramatic talent necessitated by such a plot...
...cried out, 'Oh, it's wonderful, wonderful to feel his great thighs moving, to feel his powerful legs!' 'Rubbish, Frieda,' Lawrence shouted back. 'Don't talk like that. You have been reading my books. You don't feel anything of the sort...