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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Edouard Manet (1832-83) was among the first of the Impressionists. He has been consistently confused with his contemporary, Monet, by people who cannot tell black from white. Manet's figures are flat; Monet's trees and seas and flowery forests leap with a wind of movement. Manet loved light; Monet loved shading. Manet painted with a brush as broad as a glance of the eye; Monet put his color on in tiny dots. Manet saw life as a gleam; Monet saw it as a shimmer. It was late in life that Manet came to recognition; he was laughed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Manet | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

...somewhat. He is affectionate, demonstrative, but utterly imperturbable, even before his father's taciturn anger or tenderness. When, by 16, he has towered up to his father's height and beam, his mother has accepted as inscrutable in him a poise that seems a latent power, like a wind not yet blowing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Idler | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

...cook, intrigued, threw many a meat scrap. The eagle, unwary, flew farther and farther seaward?followed the Sulanierco 20 miles with ease, 10 more by settling down to earnest purposeful flapping, 10 more by resorting to tricks of volplaning and wind-catching, 10 more with every tendon of its great wings strained by the torturing, racking effort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: May 31, 1926 | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

...nine athletes in the semi-final and final events scheduled to start at 3 o clock this afternoon, and Harvard trailed on their heels with eight men qualified in the 13 events of the afternoon. The preliminaries were run off under favorable conditions, with a fast track and little wind, and the brilliant field of athletes turned in series of high trial marks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coast Stars Scintillate as 50th Intercollegiate Meet Opens | 5/29/1926 | See Source »

Tomorrow, which is the last scheduled day of the regatta, and which will wind up all the activities except the finals of the double sculling, will see only one race. This is the Carroll Cup race at 3 o'clock for single scullers which is the annual feature of the regatta...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THREE CHAMPIONS CROWNED IN HARVARD REGATTA RACES | 5/25/1926 | See Source »

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