Word: tympanum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recently that the architects in charge of cloistering the Yard, feeling that some contrast to the brick red and slate gray of the new dormitories was necessary, inspected some eighteenth century prints of the Yard, now hanging in the President's office in University Hall and discovered that the tympanum of Holden and the clock on Massachusetts were there depicted as blue...
...collection, in contrast to that of Fogg, does not contain originals. Instead, casts have been taken from works of art such as the tympanum of the Cathedral of Strassburg, the entrance to the Cathedral of Freiburg, and the Berlin statue of the Great Elector. American artists have so deftly painted the casts that the very rust of the iron hinges, the polish of the bronze, the color of the stone, or the finish of the wood appear in the copy. There are also excellent electrotype reproductions of German work in gold and copies of paintings by Van Eyck, Durer...
...necessitate a delicate focussing of the outer ear toward the lecturer as a sunflower to the sun, or else induces that semi-sonambulent state of psychological detachment from the boredom of the immediate intellectual rationing. The dodge for those who care is to plead astigmatism or a punctured tympanum; for those who don't, some A's or B's notes or a conference with the Widow...