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Dean Hudnut has a thorough background both in teaching and practice...
...week there. I believe that one need only underline the fact that Mr. Brundage does not speak German and when he spoke to leaders of German Jewry, he did so either in the presence of official representatives of the Nazi government or with them hovering ominously in the background as it were. Even if these leaders of German Jewry did give a clean bill of fare to the Nazis, I do not think that their statements should be taken very seriously...
...these the laws which Homer gave? Figures cut from a fashion magazine pasted on canvas, geometric background: "Street In Montevidco", Norah Borges... By Lurcat, reinder horns growing out of earth tall as trees; a leaf large as a mountain, "Paysage Romantique"... One steer's head, one girl's head, a railroad track, one prairie, in oil and framed, "Paysage Andalou," by Jose Moreno Villa... And it was with profound regret that the Vagabond saw his friend's portrait, Edwin Arlington Robinson, taken down and replaced with a portrait which resembles the Vagabond's hag-in all respect dear women...
...astonishing careers of Keats and Shelley, paints the three poets and their wives and many mistresses as unearthly children of genius whose love affairs, political activities and financial squabbles are like charming and pathetic parodies of a humdrum adult world. Both books devote much attention to the social background. At the time of Byron's fame, England was ruled by the fat, "superbly filthy" Prince of Wales, later George IV, who was known to have burst into tears when Beau Brummell criticized his clothing, and whose greatest achievement was his construction of the pleasure resort at Brighton (TIME...
...Farmer Takes a Wife" is pleasantly quiet. It is essentially an idyllic love story concerning Janet Gaynor and Henry Fonds, but the triteness of plot is relieved by the varied minor characters and by its background, the Erie Canal in Pre-Civil War days. The conflict between railway and canal, the lure of western emigration, and the farmer's love of the land are all presented calmly but with force...