Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just as the skyscraper has grown out of America's industrial and commercial greatness, so, in time, will there develope a style in college architecture to represent America's cultural ideal. What this style will be, time will determine. If it is to be truly representative of America, it must be a pure American expression, without suggestion of European models...
Though it will take a long time, most of the old monstrosities will eventually be replaced by new buildings in harmony with the spirit of the whole. In view of this, Harvard need not how even before majestic Harkness. The colonial style to which Harvard is reverting is the nearest approach to a cultural architecture that America has vet produced...
Expect New Style of Play...
...place the modern college would find for Emerson, Poe, Bret Harte, Mark Twain, and their great contemporaries. Being a shrewd observer Mr. Rood answers his last question as every thoughtful undergraduate could answer it: the college would first force these men "to wear hats and caps of the same style, suits and overcoats of the same cut, collars, ties, hosiery, shoes of the same pattern," then ostracize them until they were "out" for a team, a glee club, a publication, even brand them as "queer" until they thought like and acted like everybody else, and finally teach them in remaining...
...only must the portrait be lifesize, it must be done in a style conformable to the decoration of the woman's drawing room. If the drawing room is Louis XV period, so must be the picture. Since many drawing rooms are modern, with Oriental motifs, many pictures are done in ultra-modernist style, all attention given to pose and expression, costumes indicated by a few strokes with oriental backgrounds. Fernand Goin, Jean Gabriel Domergue, Van Dongen are reported to be doing many portraits of this kind. "They have their sittings booked for months ahead, like fashionable dentists...