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...work of "these chemists who pile up little dots," as Gauguin contemptuously named the pointillists, was to the 1890s what constructivism would be to the 1920s: the house style of Utopian socialism in its various forms. Pissarro was a fervent anarchist, and his dot-crusted scenes of idyllic rural labor (as stylized and unreal, in some ways, as any 18th century pastoral) are attempts, not always successful, to convey an ideal vision of social dignity based on freely shared work. In this he was the heir of Millet as well-though he certainly did not know peasant life as Millet...
...student and then a teacher in the 1920s, Gorky was hard on himself...
Behind this discovery is Stratton's great-grandmother. Lilla Day Monroe--a pioneer herself as one of the more influential suffrage leaders of her day, the founder of a western newspaper, and the first woman admitted to practice before the Kansas Supreme Court. In the 1920s, she concocted the idea of soliciting female survivors of the Kansas frontier to chronicle their lives and entrust the stories to her care. She had in mind a magazine article, but when the submissions flooded in by the hundreds. Monroe expanded her project to an anthology. Illness and the obligations of public life prevented...
...School is renovating the dorm, which was constructed in the 1920s, to provide more up-to-date facilities for the students...
That is provided by William Weaver's The Golden Century of Italian Opera, a lavishly illustrated account of the glorious years from 1815 to the mid-1920s, from The Barber of Seville to Turandot. "All we contemporary composers, without exception, are so many pygmies beside this great master," Bellini said of Rossini. But he was wrong. Geniuses followed each other like monarchs in a royal procession: Bellini himself, Donizetti, Verdi, Puccini. Opera lovers became so accustomed to dazzling new works that they thought the parade would never end, that the extraordinary had become the usual...