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...plays and poems the editor has set down in a little space a great wealth of condensed information on sources, problems of character and interpretation, and facts about the text. The twelve generations of Harvard men who sat at his feet in old "English 2" will recognize in delight many of the master's rapier thrusts...
Find greater ease in my big green chair, my feet on the bed. I browse in the plays, hunting for the songs therein. They are my delight...
ORIGINALLY written for those outside the trade, this little "attempt at a rationale of book-typography" has reached a position of respect among eminent practicing printers. In 29 pages Mr. Morison lays down the laws of typography with consummate skill. For the layman the chief delight of his essay is in its effective demolition of the school of so-called "fine printing" Mr. Morison fulminates so beautifully against tricky type-fonts, odd proportions of type and page, misplaced color and the rough edges of handmade paper that it is reasonable to assume any journeyman reader of his remarks will think...
...standing on its hind legs: it isn't done well, but you're surprised and gratified to see it done at all. And then the glimpses of Harvard scenery, in the Tercentenary film itself and also in a short tribute by Pathe, are a revelation and a delight. Some of the vistas are so artistic that you won't be able to recognize them, and they all go to show what a frame will do for a scene that was never thought worth noticing before...
...Degas' famed sporting pictures were painted in his studio from rapid pencil sketches. Though one of the greatest of figure painters, he despised women. "Little rats" was his favorite term for the ballet dancers who posed for his great pastel studies, and he seemed to take a malicious delight in twisting them into uncomfortable postures...