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...range of vision. A faulty shade leaking a little light in the orchestra or over the organ will be a source of annoying glare for even though the intensity of the reflected light from the screen may be much greater, the direct light by reason of the dark background will by contrast be blinding in effect and harmful...
Nevertheless, the theme is not satisfied. It treats of the emotions behind all the mannerisms; and in most cases it falls short of adequate treatment. Most of all, however, the lack of structure and background detracts from the effect. Of Westlake, during the twenty years of the heroine's life that the book covers (the second twenty), the reader learns little more than that it suffers the characters to exist within its confines. Of the progress of the story, there is never any forecast but the evident succession of the years, At scattered intervals during these years, the author drops...
Rembrandt painted it late in his life when he was fast growing blind. It was a portrait of his son, "Titus in an Armchair," smiling faintly out of a dull background. Last week a few U. S. art merchants and connoisseurs fought for it at auction at the American Art Galleries, Manhattan. Somebody began the bidding at $50,000. Competitors nodded their heads. Each nod sent the price up another $10,000. Near the end, nods were only worth $1,000 apiece. Sir Joseph Duveen, semi-Semitic, ornate dealer and art authority, as might well be guessed, nodded last. "Titus...
...purposes of effective cooperation in order to avoid those dangerous pitfalls which yawn for the incoming Freshman whenever the purposes of school and college diverge even slightly from the parallel, no finer means could be devised than such a conference as this where discussion is carried on before the background of a college in active movement and in the presence of those who are shaping its policies and defining its aims...
...Browning circus is set with a background of sweet-scented boudoirs with fancy fripperies and doo-fangles...