Word: xvi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aesthetic experience. To see her in the fabulous modernism of the new Paramount Theatre adds further color to that experience. Only a picture of the forcefulness of Shanghai Express could tear one away from the exotic pastime of watching full-blown colonial maidens, done in the style of Louis XVI, cavorting in modernistic panels under the influence of subdued lighting effects. Paramount has again attempted to be all things to all men and has again succeeded in its own fashion...
Mesmer left Vienna, went to Switzerland, then to Paris where, after two years of successful practice, he offered his services to Louis XVI. But, as with other salvagers, it took bullion-room gold to keep him dredging up wrecks. He told the king "for the purposes I have in mind, the sum of four or five hundred thousand francs is neither here nor there. My discoveries and myself must be endowed with a generous hand. . . ." Parsimonious Louis declined, whereupon the money was raised for Mesmer by private subscription. Mesmeromania became the rage. He continued practicing, though without official recognition, until...
...Harvard 5 Dr. Currier, Sec. 2 Harvard 5 Mathematics 3 Harvard 2 Music 4 Music Bldg. Physics D Geol. Lect. Rm. Pierce 110 Physics 2a Pierce 110 Physics 31 Pierce 110 Physiology 1 Sever 23 Romance Philology 3 Emerson A, F Sociology 5 Emerson 211 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2 (XVI) Celtic 1 Sever 17 Economics 7a Sever 35 Economics 32 Sever 5 Economics 34 Sever 35 Fine Arts 17 Fogg Small Rm. French 14 Sever 18 French 26 Sever 35 Geography 32 Geography Bldg. Government 23 Sever 5 Latin 3 hf. Sever 17 Latin 7 hf. Sever 17 Music 1b Music...
...completion of his Socrates, public enthusiasm for Painter David's sketch for the picture of The Oath of the Tennis Court and his strong but not violent republicanism caused him to be elected to the September 1792 Convention. The next year, he voted for the death of Louis XVI. Later he became President of the Convention, found French inspiration for his pictures of historic catastrophes- Last Moments of Lepelletier de Saint-Farceau, Marat Assassinated. When Napoleon became Emperor. Painter David portrayed him seated on a fiery horse, pointing the road to Italy...
...TUESDAY, JUNE 2 (XVI) Economics 32 EmersonF Economics 34 Emerson F Engin. Sciences 3b Robinson Annex French 40 Sever...