Word: symposium
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
From Propaganda Minister Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels came a symposium of German movies from 1910 to 1939. Labor Front Leader Dr. Robert Ley presented a Volkswagen, the cheap German-manufactured car not yet available to the public. For the Reichsbank Dr. Walther Funk gave a version of Titian's Venus at the Mirror which official Germany now accepts (although many art critics do not) as one of two authentic originals of this painting...
...twenty-two on Renaissance and Baroque Art, and one on Modern Art. Perhaps it is because the critical apparatus of most scholars is so beautifully equipped to deal with Masaccio and Piero della Francesca that it finds itself at a loss when confronted by Dali and Gropper. At a symposium on Modern Art some years ago, I heard a scholar who has written much and wisely on the art of the Italian Renaissance attempt, quite unsuccessfully, to cope with some of the more extreme forms of modernism; I concluded that his powers of connoisseurship were not translatable into the present...
Speakers at the opening session Friday evening, in a symposium on "Can Education Help Democracy Survive?", will be President Conant, Dr. Gummere, Chairman of the Committee on Admissions, and Arthur N. Holcombe, Professor of Government...
There are three main organizations in the House, all of them active and two of them claiming members from other Houses. The Musical Society has just finished production of the seldom produced Purcell opera "King Arthur". Two meetings of the Social Science Symposium have produced lively discussions of Darwinism and Marxism. The Scientific Society is the only one of its kind in the Houses and is participated in by many out of House...
Long-winded monologues delivered at House dinners, poorly attended conferences of the American Civilization groups, sporadic inter-House debates--these were once the only means of integrating ideas drawn from various fields. Then, a group of original men in Lowell House conceived the idea of a "symposium," consisting of student impersonations of great men of the past. In this way it was possible, for example, to portray the repercussions of Darwinian thought on economics, philosophy, literature, and religion of the nineteenth century. Last week a similar project, built around Marxist theory, was so successful that it stimulated a heated audience...