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...physical culture. ... I try to paint what I have found, not what I sought. . . . The idea of 'Research' led some of our painters to abstraction. That was, perhaps, one of the greatest mistakes of modern art. . . . [They] tried to paint the invisible. . . . Men have tried to explain Cubism by mathematics, by geometry, by psychoanalysis, etc. All that is only literature. . . . What is art? If I knew I should take care not to reveal...
...great step came when Newton (1642-1727) gave Space a definite physical reality in his theories of force accelerating bodies, the movement being measurable in reference to a really rigid body. The introduction of "ether" by Faraday (1791-1867) and Maxwell (1831-79) to explain their electro-magnetic field theories was the last great step before Einstein's relativity theories...
When well, he set to work, devised equations which confirmed his sick bed hopes and proved to him that he was striking upon a common denominator which would explain all physical phenomena...
...Truslow Adams of the Adams family, "with which I am in no way connected.": It is the most distinguished in the U. S. It has a unique record of public service. The Adams Family, June choice of the Literary Guild, is an attempt to describe this phenomenon, but not explain it. Something happened to the Adams blood or brain 150 years ago, lifted them from obscure respectability to international fame. Ever since, they have "maintained a pre-eminent position, due neither to great wealth nor to a hereditary title, but to character and sheer intellectual ability...
Lest certain citizens be somewhat startled at the information that the University Film Foundation has completed a moving picture of Massachusetts, it might be well to explain that this is a figure of speech only, and that the foundations of the state are apparently as sound as ever. But neither need this be a source of disappointment to the more sensational minded, for even if the stern New England rocks do not achieve positive animation, the film is of sufficient interest to warrant considerable attention...