Word: wooded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Centers: James Feron '39, Rick Hedbloom '39, Tim Russell '39, Hamilton Wood '40, Amory Burnham '41, Tom Groves '41, Rod Townsend...
Barlach's reaction to his environment is vigorous and positive. Unlike the other two, he is essentially a carver and, like his late Gothic German predecessors, is a carver of wood. His peasant men and women are emotional creatures, strangely Slavic in character, clad in roughhewn garments that are subtly expressive of the figures' mood. They have the same subjective intensity that is found in the strange dramas written by the artist...
Other members of the Economics' Visiting Committee, beside Lippmann and Whitney, are Winthrop W. Aldrich '07, Albert F. Bigelow '03, Roger S. Baldwin, Barklie Henry, Christian A. Herter '15, Alvin S. Johnson, Joseph P. Kennedy '12, George O. May, Charles M. Storey '12, John G. Winant, and Orrin G. Wood...
...quality in Christopher Wood's later paintings which during his lifetime of 29 years won the admiration of Augustus John, Diaghilev, Cocteau, Picasso, and which has caused them to be valued by their owners at prices up to $10,000 is a quality found everywhere in English poetry but exceptional in English painting : magic of imagery. Artist Wood sharpened his delicate color sense on Picasso but his line and composition were personal, quaint, candidly visionary. He produced nearly 500 oil paintings in ten years, turned out four a week during his last summer vacation in Brittany. London...
...this was recalled last week in London as Britain's big, slick Science Museum staged an exhibition called "One Hundred Years of Transatlantic Steam Navigation." By models and murals visitors were shown a century's changes from wood to iron and steel; from paddle wheel to screw, to multiple screws. Last paddle wheeler left the Atlantic in 1874, the first turbine arrived 20 years later. "Grandest failure" was the 18,914-ton Great Eastern, a five-funnel combined paddle and screw steamship, 680 feet long, built in 1858. Most vessels then carried about 400 passengers. The Great Eastern...