Word: writing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pale reflection of white civilization. Meeting upper-level Negroes of Washington, D. C., Mr. Hughes found them critical of Jean Toomer, Rudolph Fisher and Zora Hurston, Negro novelists, of many another Negro author who has written realistic, often tragic narratives of the Negro masses. "Why doesn't Jean Toomer write about nice people?" asked the Washingtonians. Why didn't Rudolph Fisher's City of Refuge* deal with "decent folks"? And they objected to Negro Artist Winold Reiss's drawings of Negroes because he "made his colored people look so colored." Of the whole radical school of young Negro authors they...
...setting-up exercises, he calls for the applicants to enter. As they file in, in scanty costume, each is measured by the bird-like youth for hip, breast, ankle, calf dimensions. The evidence having been accumulated, the publisher ponders the records, the while his young attendant implores him to write his memoirs. The girl with the most perfect measurements is just about to be appointed to fill the position when in marches a woman in an old-fashioned bathing suit that reaches to her knees. She presents documents from the Messrs. Morgan, Rockefeller, Gary, Schwab, et al., testifying that...
...wife did not help him write his book. She is the daughter of the late John Charles Rowe of Buffalo. Said he: "She thought that my epigrams were certainly original." The book's title is Tittle-Tattle...
...main path, the Vagabond was deflected from his original purpose in mentioning a lecture on Richard Strauss, by the fact that that composer was perhaps the first, frankly to use cacaphony in the modern sense. Not that he was unable, as many modern composers seem to be to write most beautiful melodies, yet certainly in such works as "Ein Heldenleben", he points the way to the modern "realistic" tendency. Professor Hill will give the lecture at 12 o'clock in the Music Building...
...plans announced yesterday all resident students of Harvard College, who have not completed four years of work in a college or institution of equivalent grade, are eligible. The preliminary competition will be held in Widener N from two until 5 o'clock, on April 14. Each competitor will write on one or two topics which are chosen by himself from a list of ten or 12 suggested by the events of the past few months. The method of presentation as well as a knowledge of facts will be considered in determining the winner...