Word: compressive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Intriguing European diplomats have long regarded their phlegmatic British rivals as men of diabolic cunning. They compress their admiration and envy into the epithet, perfidious Albion. Even Heinrich Heine warned against "the treacherous and murderous intrigues of those Carthaginians of the North Sea." Writer-Diplomat Harold Nicolson in his Diplomacy, published last fortnight, says British diplomats seem "treacherous" because they are amateurish, opportunist, childishly simple, sentimental. Salient traits of British diplomacy to Author Nicolson are a "national distaste for logic and a national preference for dealing with situations after they have arisen rather than before they arise...
...This collection, containing more than 400 separate pieces, is a sparkling example of the varied and divergent possibilities of the water-color medium. There are so many high-points of artistic value, so many outstanding examples of potential greatness, that it is neither just nor adequate to compress the exhibit within the rather arbitrary bounds of a brief review. However, one aspect of the collection which is surprisingly odd, yet quite pleasing is the fact that some of the better-known artists, Benson, Macknight, Homer, and even Sargent, lose the lustre of their fame when their paintings are compared with...
...grave, against a dull rainscape. There was no outstanding piece of sculpture like Carl Hallsthammar's Venus in Red Cherry of last year, but the exhibition introduced the work of a promising, 23-year-old, self-taught Syrian of New Orleans, Leon Koury, with a competent Negro figure, Compress Worker...
...announced in an article by Professor Simpson in the April issue of the Harvard Law Review. To meet the increasing emphasis which the trend of the times is placing on new legal techniques, and to permit more intensive specialization in the final year, it has been found desirable to compress into the first two years much of the material traditionally studied over the whole course. The faculty committee, and in particular Dean Landis, are to be congratulated for resolutely resisting the temptation to initiate a four year course. Such a change would probably have enabled the faculty haphazardly to pile...
...read the acclaim which has greeted Harvard's method of using Mrs. Nicman's million dollar gift, we wonder. . . . We wonder how journalists will feel, after a year's study at Harvard upon "such subjects as they desire" when they are forced to compress and distort their knowledge to fit "hot news" and the style books...