Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While protest meetings crackled, Edsel Ford went before the Detroit City Council with his Arts Commission budget. With him went Architect Albert Kahn, a fellow Institute director. The City Councilmen took the chance to lambaste the frescoes Mr. Ford had given Detroit. One called them a "travesty on the spirit of Detroit . . . and Mr. Ford's factories. . . . There is not a man there with a pleasant look or a smile. . . . The anatomical exhibitions . . . can't be sent through the mails." Messrs. Ford & Kahn made no reply...
Throughout the last week there has been circulated a persistent and well organized propaganda against Adolph Hitler and his treatment of Jews in Germany. The dictator is alleged to have been the moving spirit behind a persecution incredible in its extent and bitterness, and those who have been most active in dispensing figures and anecdotes have also neglected no opportunity to point the moral of a well adorned tale. Those apocryphal Germans who hacked the hands from helpless little Belgians have been resurrected, and in their new incarnation seem for more terrifying because they are far more plausible...
...embarrassingly difficult to distinguish between the genuine debs in the audience and the members of the chorus who were wandering around the halls. A piano specialty was perfectly executed, but more familiar selections might be suggested as more likely to entertain. A scene "Design for Living," haunted by the spirit of Noel Coward, was good enough to be enlarged upon. A. D. Cadman '35 contributed a brilliant bit as safari...
...tutorial staff of the department embodies this spirit. There are enough tutors and few enough students so that individual attention may be given to individual problems and work. Informal weekly meetings of the Seniors in he second half year supplement the tutorial work and give the Seniors a chance to discuss and clarify any topic of psychological interest. As a result, the divisionals come as a natural culmination of the work of three years. These examinations consists of two written three-hour tests and one informal oral on any subject selected by the student...
...nation as well as the folk arts. Our best hopes for the future he among the folk arts according to my mind. Of course you can claim that I am a middle-westerner and therefore, haven't an aesthetic, mind. Nevertheless, we westerners represent the true American spirit better than you in the East since you are so much in contact with the influences exerted on American by foreign countries...