Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...need for a monopoly. Ghandi had two and half million spinning wheels manufactured and distributed throughout India,, this cutting off most of the English monopoly on cloth. It is only necessary to look at the unemployment situation today in Manchester, Birmingham, and the other great English mill towns, to understand the economic importance of India to England...
...both kinds. It is possible to listen to a Beethoven symphony in one evening. Can one get an idea of the art of a poet or a painter as easily? If the poet writes in a language foreign to us we must expend more effort than is needed to understand the music. In the case of art it is easy to spend an afternoon in the Fogg Museum and become acquainted with a number of masterpieces, for instance, the prints by Durer, Holbein, or Rembrandt. The work of Gainsborough who painted the now famous "Blue Boy" can be seen...
...Simono Martini, Lorenzetti, Fra Angelico, Pintoricchio, Vivarini, and Tintoretto, to mention only a few. These names of earlier artists are becoming better and better known and more beloved as the knowledge of art and taste progresses in the modern world. There are also works by later masters easier to understand, as the fine portrait by Van Dyck, the St. Jerome of Ribera, the so-called Rembrandt's Daughter by Turner, and the portrait of Count Rumford by Gainsborough. For those who are still more modern in their tastes there are oil and water colors by Winslow, Homer, Whistler, LaFarge, Dodge...
...this trivial difference over phraseology, at least according to the Russian delegation, which has caused no end of trouble at Genoa. The Communist, who never admitted the right of private property in the first place, cannot understand how anyone can find anything extreme or unreasonable in "expropriation". When the other members of the family of nations demur, and refuse to allow their citizens in Russia to suffer by this piece of Bolshevik logic, M. Kakowsky and his colleagues assume the attitude of injured innocence...
...Lewisohn's essays are smoothly and interestingly written. Occasionally they are startling and surprisingly naive. He says there is not "anything so intricate to understand" in writing a play, and takes away the breath with such a statement as "A born dramatist can write drama without ever having seen a theatre." Perhaps that is sound theory but the world has never been blessed with "a born dramatist" then, for the greater dramatists have almost always been workers in the theatre. His criticisms of books on dramatic technique and on players, production and plays do not seen "desultory" because...