Word: walks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appeared the ninth and cleverest of these jobs: Art Without Epoch, an anthology of 140 examples of "dateless" art from the past 4,000 years. Picked for their impact on the modern eye, Compiler Ludwig Goldscheider's exhibits will be much more fun for most laymen than a walk through the Louvre. An Egyptian mummy portrait* (see cut) done about 200 A. D. looks like the work of a modern illustrator, tricks of brushwork, pretty lifelikeness and all. A Greek idol from 2,000 B. C. is obviously nothing but abstract sculpture. More than any of the impressive books...
...contemporary, Friedrich Nietzsche, his present-day German disciples have gone him one better. What to him was a theme for art and philosophy is to them a principle of practical politics. Realmleader Hitler is himself a rapt worshipper of Wagner's music. The Ride of the Walküre is one of his favorite entrance marches for big State occasions. Frau Winifred Wagner, daughter-in-law of the late great composer and friend of the Realmleader, is Germany's musical matriarch. Wagner's Norse heroes, W70tan and Siegfried, have been converted by Official Seer Alfred Rosenberg into...
Squash--Varsity-Team A, Walk-Over Club (away...
...theme which was old four years ago when Dick Powell went through the paces of "Flirtation Walk", and which has been used in countless musical spectacles since that time, forms the basis of "Navy Blue and Gold," currently featured at the University Theatre. "Thoroughbreds Don't Cry", the co-feature, also plays upon an ancient theme in a familiar way; one might almost think this was review week...
...reader does not find himself equipped with a mass of data ready to be incorporated in a lecture on Sir John Squire. He finds, rather, an impression of the man, and with this an intimacy with contemporary English men of letters, and indeed men in every walk of his life, for the book does not alone with the writers. Perhaps the work is not of great lasting value, because it may not be great, but certainly it is of intense interest, and significant for its change from the well-worn factual autobiography...