Word: geometricism
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Degas' genius as an artist, and range as a technician, is particularly marked in this, his most recent showing. Trained in the tradition of Ingres and familiar with the methods of the impressionists among whom he worked, his work soon reached out into new fields and he combined his peculiar...
Farther down the hall, guarded from the main corridor by two secretarial offices, is a flaming lacquer-red door. When this door is thrown open, the scene is like the bursting of a rocket. Dazzling golds, lacquer reds and blacks provide a setting for a wealth of Chinese ornament-scrolls...
"A well-known modern Swedish architect, visiting Yale a while ago, was shown the [Sterling] Library while it was still unfinished and the 16-story Book Tower stood only as a structure of steel girders and braces in geometric patterns. 'Ah!' said the architect, looking up in surprise and relief...
In the wings a substitute tenor (Lauritz Melchior) fidgeted, waiting to take over the title-role should sick Tenor Sigmund Pilinsky collapse. On the dais, the back of Conductor Arturo Toscanini's mind held worry for his wife, in the hospital all week with a broken leg. Frau Cosima...
What improvements and simplifications Innovator Gregg has made in the stenographer's task are attributable to: 1) all characters being written with the same intensity; 2) characters based on longhand script rather than applications of geometric figures (Pitman system); 3) incorporation of vowels into the word-figure. But so...