Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tiziano Vecelli (c. 1477-1576), probably the greatest, certainly the most prolific of Venetian painters, piled up a great fortune, lived to be 99. He painted Chicago's Cupid at the age of 85. Announcing that he began to understand what painting meant only after he passed 90, in his later years he worked on seven or eight pictures at once, impatiently used his finger tips more than his brushes in spreading paint. For grandiloquent allegory Education of Cupid has few equals in the U. S., perhaps only Venus and the Lute Player, now in the Metropolitan, The Rape...
...down and has closed the taxi dance halls, so called. That this is but the first move in a drive to clean up Tokio for the Olympic Games visitors in 1940 is proof positive that however much they may themselves believe it, the Japs do not as yet thoroughly understand Western civilization. Mayor Cermak or any other executive who has planned for any American or European World's Fair or exhibition could tell them different...
...come to more mundane affairs: the students here prefer Roosevelt. But since Oxford, they say, is a place for lost causes, that is not hard to understand...
...Harvard have held the same generally undefined religious attitude as himself. This is the year 1936. In the years when the great flower we know as Harvard was still a tight little Puritan bud there was an enforced unanimity or religious sentiment that we nowadays find difficult to understand. Man was damned, utterly completely horribly and Calvinistically damned, and there might be no mistake about it. Michael Wigglesworth, graduate, and tutor at Harvard in the middle seventeenth century, showed God's judgment in his "Day of Doom...
...premanent truths and the common elements of men". Herein lies the danger of falling off Scylla into Charybdis. The exclusive use of original writings can be just as "degrading" as reliance on corrupt text-books. For example Newton's "Principia" and Marx's "Das Kapital" are excessively difficult to understand and they are crammed with irrelevancies and theories now known to be wrong. It is as waste of time and effort to plunge through such morasses unaided. Commentaries and lectures which show the relation between events and the growth of doctrines double the value of an old book. Students...