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There is a certain difficulty involved in adjusting one's self to Klee's style in order to make his work resemble anything like a communicative medium. It cannot be denied that to understand him as a painter requires much concentration and intellectual exercise, for a few traditional cobwebs must first be cleared from our minds, and a sympathetic desire to go hand in hand with the artist on his own ground must be substituted. Klee is not a literal painter. His colors themselves are intended to contain a certain emotional content, and the total effect of each...
...been complaints. Last spring the Committee on the Use of English advised automatic rejection by all departments of papers and examinations failing to reach a minimum standard of clear and lucid prose. Hence the new emphasis on "practical" writing--on English not as an artistic end but as a medium of common expression...
...litter of a studio. In his teens he turned to sculpture, wrangled with his teachers at the Berlin Academy for a couple of years before striking out on his own at 16. His sculptural characteristics: eyes sealed shut without any lid line showing, mouths that curve sinuously downward. A medium-sized concrete piece, practical Peter Fingesten figures, costs him only 50? for cement, 80? for other materials...
...wire topic was Brown University's proposal for an intercollegiate radio network. For the last three years Brown has had a wire hookup of receivers in the rooms of 1,600 students, thinks that an ivy network could pay its way with radio ads, would provide a novel medium for exchange of undergraduate thought and enterprise...
Hazelton Spencer is a scholar who knows how to write human English without being indecently "popular." His book is a summary and evaluation of the known facts and of the more sound, or persistent, interpretations, on Shakespeare, his life, his medium, his work, what it means - and doesn't mean - and how it is acted. Where there are no facts he makes no effort to invent any. His own remarks are distinguished by unusual common sense. The common sense changes Hamlet from Weltschmerz in tights to a gallant and proficient Renaissance prince; proclaims that Shylock cannot be whitewashed...