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...most striking picture of the show is "Le Chapeau a la Rose" by Jules Pascin. With its pale green background, its delicate brown and rose colors, set against the oak panels of the common room, one cannot help but wish it could be permanently placed there...
Begun in 1924, Surrealisme sprang from a scientific background. Of the three founders of the movement, Breton, Aragon, and Soupault, the first two were physicians and neurological specialists...
There is an excellent "Silly Symphony", which takes as its musical background an old-time hit of program-music called "A Hunt in the Black Forest". Its companion-piece on old phonograph records, "In a Clock Store", is the basis for the cartoon now playing at the Fine Arts...
...legislative program he simply wound up. His geniality, his personal charm, his good social background, will be advanced in his favor?and against them will be set the suspicion that he has all the cautious conservatism of the ruling rich. He will be called a strong man who fights battles for the plain people and a weak man who never took the unpopular side to his own cost. He will be damned for being too Wet and damned for being...
...title course, geographical exploration, is a survey of the field from the time of Humboldt to the present and a discussion of the requirements for exploration at the present time; the latter including physical equipment, field methods, technical background and morale. The technicological courses include a half year each in elementary and advanced topographic and hydrographic-surveying. Another course is in field astronomy, a science which is chiefly valuable in the determination of fixed points, employing theodolite, sextant and astrolabe. Cartography provides training in map projections and drawings, sketching in the field and converting to office maps...