Word: visually
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate last week presented a spectacle that is seen in Washington scarcely once in a generation. Part of the spectacle was purely visual: day after day seats on the Senate floor, of which three-quarters are usually vacant, were occupied by as many as 60 of the 96 Senators. On roll calls as many as 80 appeared personally in the chamber to vote. But the most important part of the spectacle was political: senior members of the majority party, led by the Administration's own floor leader were fighting one of the Administration's own bills...
Brilliantly photographed by Lee Tover, shrewdly released to coincide with the first heat waves of 1937, the $1,000.000 result successfully combines the current vogue for mildly lunatic comedy with the pure visual satisfaction of importations like Du World's The Bine Light, H. R. Sokal's Slalom. Best small part: George Davis as a Swiss sleigh driver who, with the same impenetrable calm, drives Kay to the hotel when she arrives, rescues her when she plunges into a snowbank on skis, drives her to the station when she leaves...
...mile. An estimated audience of 50,000 televiewers in an area of 7,500 sq. mi. watched the screens of their little receiving sets (average cost: $400) as the Procession passed, the King & Queen bowed close up, the excited Princesses waved and giggled. By no means perfect, this visual report was acclaimed by all its subscribers as marvelously satisfying and the London Times proudly thundered: ''The supreme trial has brought a notable triumph...
...John S. Paraskevopoulos, in charge of the Bloemfontein station, cabled the University Observatory that when Mercury was seen silhouetted against the sun there were no signs of any luminous ring around the body. His observations were made with an eight inch visual telescope...
...Artist, and Layman", by Arthur Pope '01, professor of Fine Arts. $1.50. Professors Pope considers first the difficulty with some of our present methods of education, then outlines a rational program for it, including the proposal that advanced training for the visual arts should be given in a profession school. Published April...