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Word: spacings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are too many brief reviews. I feel it would be better for the reader, at least, if there were only one or two, with the reviewer given space to move around in and to argue his points. Harry Brown is confused by T. S. Eliot's last play, and waits for elucidation by "such people as Mr. Ransom or Mr. Tate or Mr. Blackmur...

Author: By Robert B. Davis and Instructor IN English, S | Title: On the Shelf | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...this case it was the so-called "archaic" coolness and clarity of form of 16th-century French painting, after the great portraitist, François Clouet. The line in Artist Guevara's pictures seems almost engraved; her forms are firmly rounded, spick-&-span, in cool, grey-blue space. Most impressive: the Seated Young Woman (see cut), plump and brown in a red skirt and an airy room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Modern Archaist | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...sensuous space, serenity and golden sublimation, visitors could look on Titian's Lady at the Mirror. Across the room Veronese's Venus at her Toilet turned her opulent, cool and massive back. A pig-eyed, swollen-bellied little courtesan appeared in Lucas Cranach's delicately painted Nymph Reposing. From the 17th Century came a dusky Landscape with Nymphs and Satyrs by France's great Nicolas Poussin. How nude painting became stage prettiness and erotic folderol in 18th-and early 19th-Century France was almost too amply demonstrated in pictures by Watteau, Boucher, Baudouin, Girodet and Prud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: CLASSIC NUDITY | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...Note--The Crimson does not necessarily endorse opinions expressed in printed communications. No attention will be paid to anonymous letters and only under special conditions, at the request of the writer, will names be withheld. Only letters under 400 words can be printed because of space limitations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...space below describe the kind of a lady you desire for a life companion and we will attend to the matter at once." Just like that! But who was this Jane Fuller, this dictator of the laws of nature? Should Vag, the cream of something or other, entrust his marital happiness to some unknown goddess in Milwaukee? No! And as he strode about the room in blustering defiance, a Great Idea came to him. The Government, that great paternal being, that impartial regulator of everything it can get its hands on, the Government should decide whom he should marry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 4/15/1939 | See Source »

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