Word: attempts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most interesting place in the world, and should not be divided into student interests and faculty requirements. If we could unify the whole college life all the studies would naturally grow out of student interests. It would not be a preparation for after-college life, but an attempt to get the full meaning of life as it goes on all around us. History, literature, and philosophy would be sought as interpretations of this life...
Laymen's fingers are still pointed. People still ask to be told the sense of what they like to call Modigliani's "daubs." And they have been answered variously. Recently an absurd attempt was made to apply the yardstick to Modigliani, to prove that he did not distort human anatomy.* Others admit the distortion but defend it by saying that the Egyptians distorted, as did El Greco, the Italian primitives. The merits of Modigliani, they add, are many: his color is finely schematic; his line is sensitive and delineates the sitter's character with wit and insight...
...went the lights. He chose a baton from the rack and began a careful, orthodox Vorspiel. Care alone, however, could not make it clean, clear-cut. Sometimes it raced confusedly, as did parts of the opera which followed. Occasionally it groped and dragged. Never, obviously, was there an attempt for theatric effect. A left hand floating in an aimless way kept the instruments subdued, the colors pale. But it found no tender lyric lines to caress, wrested no deep significance from the great human comedy. Many kind critics suspended all judgment until further hearing. The stranger was young, his debut...
...make the background too prominent. It has the same effect of the announcement interrupting a radio program to advertise whosis' blue-white diamonds. S. S. Vine Dine makes his hero, Philo Vance, in the Greene and Canary Murder Cases say and do a lot of idiotic things in an attempt to give his story an intellectual and cultural background...
Three Harvard professors, with the assistance of the Cooperative Society, have decided to continue the idea, started by the book clubs, of listing regularly a certain number of good books. These men will attempt to lead the local reader from the slough of words about him to the primrose heights of worth while reading...