Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intending to renew my subscription for TIME, which soon expires after a six months' period. I have read every number from cover to cover nearly. At first I liked its terse, piquant style, but have tired of it. Your paragraph titles are frequently frivolous, silly and often, too, misleading. Nor do I approve of the striking adjectives frequently used, not in themselves, but in their conclusion or inferences. I do not accuse the magazine of bigotry towards any one thing or belief...
...back against the newly constructed business block containing the Eliot lunch. Westmorly Court will be on its left, and across De Wolfe Street, in front of it, will be situated St. Paul's Catholic Church. According to present plans it will be made of brick in old Colonial style, and will by 100 feet-long by 65 feet wide. It will be adorned on the exterior by colonial pillars and doors. The windows will correspond exactly with the windows of colonial houses and inns. The height of the building is yet undetermined, but it is practically assured that it will...
Japanese census takers, nosing around in the northern mountains of their country, discovered a village, unmentioned by maps, containing 152 inhabitants, none of whom had ever heard of the outside world. They wore clothes of a style fashionable in Japan centuries ago. Their teeth were blackened for beauty; they ate only fruit and vegetables. Archaeologists calculated that they must be descendants of a clan called Heike which was driven into the mountains in the 11th Century by Genji, amorous but warlike royal bastard, whose biography* has lately been appearing in English, translated by scholarly Arthur Waley...
...clock Professor Edgell will lecture at the New Fogg Museum on French and Renaissance architecture. He will touch upon the great monuments of the Renaissance period, bringing out the dignified consistency of the style...
...Bethlehem, and of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem. This lecture will be illustrated with slides chosen with especial care. The discussion, dealing with the almost naive early Christian monuments, will be of particular interest in comparison with Professor Edgell's, which has to do with a highly sophisticated style of architecture...