Word: visual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Murneau's "Dracula" (1922) and "Faust," and Eisenstein's "Ten Days That Shook the World" and "Old and New." To the imaginative force of "Caligari," Eisenstein added his technique of film assembly, or "montage," in which short bits of seemingly unrelated scenes are intercut and interposed to produce a visual counterpoint...
Poet & Painter Cummings is a good looking, unassuming, generally dishevelled young man who hates functions, celebrities and talking about his own work. His interpreters explain that he does not write poems in the ordinary sense but "calligrams," poems which are at the same time cryptograms to be unravelled, and visual designs on the printed page. Thus a poem about a grasshopper will appear...
Questions which will be asked on the paper, will resemble those in the 1930 examination, which contained the following six parts; scientific vocabulary, premedical information, comprehension and retention, visual memory, memory for content, and understanding of printed material. All papers are graded by the committee of the association, and reported in confidence to the deans of all class A medical schools in America...
...other shows which will subordinate the individual work and derive unity from some problem in painting. An exhibition of abstract and realistic painting will take up the question of the degree to which individual artists depend on external phenomena. "Qualities" will be an exhibition including all types of visual objects...
...Harvard 60-inch reflector telescope, the largest astronomical instrument in the East, will be the most important part of the equipment; but five or six of the Observatory's other photographic telescopes will also be moved from Cambridge to the country. Four other photographic telescopes and the visual telescopes will be retained and operated at the present Cambridge headquarters on Observatory Hill...