Word: interpretative
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Artists. The painting of pictures is the activity of the normal mind which stands closest to insanity. Next come in close order sculpture, poetry, music. Psychiatrists are just beginning to interpret what they have long observed?the close connection between the psychopath and the artist on one hand, the psychopath and the criminal on the other.?Professor Wilhelm Weygandt of the University of Hamburg. His patients produce modernistic paintings?lop-sided faces, elongated beasts, geometrical patterns?comparable to those of the modern masters. But not all such artists, said he, are mentally unbalanced. Some draw
...praiseworthy step on the part of Paul Block, owner of several newspapers, and a master in the art of advertising, to endow courses for lectures in journalism at Yale. President Angell, outlining the instruction, to be given there, has said that they "will endeavor to interpret the press in its-relation to the political, economic and broad cultural development of the country; they will not be directed toward vocational journalism...
...much in its negative proposal as in its program to interpret the press and its relationships that the Yale plan deserves commendation. Vocational journalism, as practiced in some two hundred colleges and universities of the United States, is remarkable chiefly for its failure to produce graduates who are ready for active journalistic work...
...each numbered and assigned in lottery to waiting pioneers. One of the women dies coming over, and the man, a telegraph operator, originally assigned to Bride 68, gets left in the new draw. The picture is a study of what this does to Telegrapher Conrad Veidt, whose ability to interpret the effect of mental sickness on human behavior surpasses even that of famed Alexander Moissi (TIME, Jan. 6). Veidt plays the part slowly, subtly, compellingly, lifting a superior program picture into authentic tragedy. Best shot: 413 dainty ladies, in costumes of the '90s, on their way to hidden destinies...
...laws of nations are founded on the heritage of their great men. It is on the bulwark of past experience that intelligent society can best build and interpret the solutions of present problems. The Law School galleries bear witness to men of Harvard who in the past history of the United States have contributed to this cause. It is fitting that Justice Holmes should already find a place of honor among them...