Word: types
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seem like drawings that were started with one subject in the mind of the artist and finished with an entirely different one. The disdainful remark of "Huh, surrealism!" may be stimulated by Mr. Lougee's work. All these peremptory thoughts are actually unfair, for abstractions of Mr. Lougee's type merit a more mature consideration...
...example of the first or literal type would be Mr. Lougee's sketch of an abstract conception of "Pillar of Society." Here, he shows a strong, distinguished, hardened face in the foreground, with other smaller and shadier faces behind. The flight of the author's imagination has showed a shady pen in the background, indicating that the "pillar" of respectability may have made his riches through smuggling rum. The whole piece gives the impression of a sinful past to the strong central figure...
...left, as one enters Robinson, is a group of drawings which may be classified under the second type, namely, emotional reactions of the artist set down on paper. Mr. Lougee argues that, if certain kinds of abstract music can arouse a person emotionally, then abstract renditions of light and shade can achieve the same effect. He says frankly that these are but visual experiments, yet, his reactions to Handel's music, for one, set on paper as the essence of great, soaring flames beneath Gothic arches, succeed in conveying some kind of emotional stimulus to the onlooker...
Such men, who combined a classic culture with an interest in public affairs and whose activities seemed to spread effortlessly in all directions at once, are now a disappearing U. S. type. In John Jay Chapman and His Letters the biographer's style, more than faintly George Apley-esque, adds if anything to the museum atmosphere. Made up half of letters and half of commentary, its appeal for most readers will be in the peppery aphorisms of the man himself, scattered through his correspondence: "The essential lack in Wagner is after all a want of sanitary plumbing...
There is now a wealth of information on file in the Placement Office from employers all over the country, with detailed descriptions of the positions available, training school data, type of men wanted, and the like. In addition, the Placement Office has issued a most valuable pamphlet, in all probability the first of its kind, containing a discussion of the general problem of placing seniors, with a statement of the things an employer is looking for and how well a Harvard education meets his demands...