Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first University shell, Robert Salton-stall '33 was again seen rowing behind Cassedy yesterday, after a two-day lapse in which W. L. Thompson '32 occupied the number seven position. His absence from the stern combination which has seen two seasons of rowing has been difficult to understand, while his contribution to the power and spirit of the University eight has been felt during his short sojourn on the third boat...
...really mid-Victorian in comparison with some of the work of her countrymen. Pablo Picasso may be seen in two colored etchings which are characteristic of his latest and more incomprehensible moments; George Braque and Andre Lurcat contribute to the confusion of one who would like very much to understand. On the other hand, Jules Pascin, whose career among the sordid elements of Paris closed but recently has several strange yet interesting pieces on display. Four heads by Andre Derain complete the French side of the exhibition...
...other hand, I understand also the point of view of the contributors to the new Chapel in that they desire a memorial to the men who gave their lives for a cause, one that our country believed to be just, and fought for in that faith. Obviously a memorial to men who died for a cause is meaningless for that purpose if it includes those who died for a different or contrary cause. The same question has risen about Memorial Hall, dedicated to Harvard men who died for the Union. Confederate soldiers were no less heroic and conselentious but they...
...plays, which (again I quote Mr. Raysor) "are historically associated with the rising romantic movement, because of the romantic love of personal individuality." No more illuminating example of this method of treatment can be found in Coleridge than his critical estimate of Hamlet. It is not difficult to understand why this character about which he wrote his most incisive criticism, of all those of Shakespeare, was most attractive to Coleridge. The present editor has put it very succinctly when he writes of Coleridge's diagnosis of the prince's irresolution: "In his own excess of thought over action he found...
...watching his son, Carl Jr., turn out lavish super-cinemas (All Quiet on the Western Front, The King of Jazz). He remembers with a grin earlier Laemmle productions such as the 988-ft. Hiawatha. Of the human Carl Laemmle Biographer Drinkwater is unwilling or unable to tell much. "I understand that he plays poker for nickels or dollars with application and some skill, and that he has a palate for champagne which, it is whispered, he is in a position to indulge. He is generous in his benefactions, and he collects autographs. . . . His taste in the arts is unpretentious...