Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...among teachers, to be regarded as a trouble some continuation of nineteenth century art, rather than a phenomenon which requires not only special knowledge but a rather unusual critical equipment for its comprehension or its appraisal. Few college graduates can say that they have given much time or much thought, in their fine arts courses, to Surrealism, the murals of Orozco, or the Federal Art Projects. Few scholars feel that these are fruitful subjects for scholarly investigation. In a publication which contains the results of scholarly research, I recently found, for the period between 1925 and 1930, forty-eight articles...
Buds on the trees. Girls on the Charles. Spring in the air. Within the Vag's innermost soul, an Urge, long hibernating, began to stir, yawn, stretch itself. Vag thought of all the girls he didn't know,--then tried to think of one or two he did. There was that red-head at Smith. He had written her a couple of weeks ago. Maybe it was Spring at Smith, too; maybe she had answered. Vag dashed down to the mail box, but no letter from her. Only a very large and very official letter from Milwaukee...
Preliminary sparring again surged into the nation's headlines yesterday. In another of a series of carefully calculated moves--serving the double purpose of educating American public opinion and presenting Hitler and Mussolini with solid food for thought--President Roosevelt endorsed a strongly worded Washington Post editorial. Smarting under this newest blow to his cherished isolation, Senator Nye termed the presidential statement "a splendid evidence that we are inviting ourselves into another European war." That his statement is illogical will not have much bearing on the real issue, for there is still a large number of persons who would "protect...
...petitioners, I dare venture, do not all have very intimate knowledge of Mr. Hicks's "teaching ability," but are more probably "liberals" of the sort whose hearts throb and cheeks flush at the thought of the persecuted communist, and who are enamored of the heroic and dangerous elements in a position which they are unable to defend logically, and which they would be too timid to defend outside of academic spheres...
Instead, therefore, of lagging behind in this noble procession, the Department of the Classics is among the leaders. Those who have discovered that the thought and the art of Greece and Rome are not antiquated but abiding, naturally are eager to explore its many relations to the history of mankind and to the world of today. There is no "querelle des anciens et des modernes" at Harvard. E. K. Rand...