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...prints and photographs in the small but representative exhibit are the result of collaboration between the artist and Lois Orswell, a long-time collector of his work. Born in Decatur, Indiana, Smith had scarcely any exposure to the artistic community until he met painter Dorothy Dehner in the mid-1920s. After working in factories, Smith wished to bridge the world of industrial manufacturing and high...
Kemp said that the Malthusian fears of limited resources are unfounded and that they have wrongly predicted the preemption of supplies in the 1920s and 1970s. These fears, Kemp added, have led to excessive government legislation that inadvertently inhibited the growth of the economy...
...caustic wit, but they are interspersed with instances of memory loss, sudden fits of tears and humiliating moments of incontinence. At the close of the act, she suffers a stroke. In the second act, the full character is fleshed out, as B and C reappear in 1950s and 1920s dress, respectively. The dowdyish assistant has become the sophisticated, fiftyish A, full of confidence; the cynical young lawyer is now the naive and romantic 26-year-old A. While a mannequin with an oxygen mask lies in the bed upstage, A herself returns onstage-- no longer senile and sickly...
Edited by Nabokov's son Dmitri, the omnibus brings together 65 tales and sketches. Most have appeared at least once in previous collections. Many are translations of originals written during the 1920s and '30s for Russian emigre publications in Berlin and Paris. Eleven have recently been translated into English for the first time, among them The Wood-Sprite, written in 1921 and listed as the author's first published story...
Mayr said the library holds special meaning for him. As a student in his native Germany in the 1920s, he said he knew of the museum's fame before he ever heard the word Harvard...