Word: movements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Westward Movement," produced by the Radio Workshop...
After four years of experimental observations of the moon and sun, Edwin G. Boring, professor of Psychology, and Alfred H. Holway, a research worker in the Harvard Psychology laboratory, have disproved the theories that the observed change in size of the moon is due to head-movement, or to the fact that at horizon the moon is seen alongside familiar earth-objects...
...this love for the loud and violent. They are filled with music of an aggressive character, with strong rhythms and climaxes. Such a piece of music is the Beethoven Fifth Symphony. Its short, ruthless opening theme collars the attention of the listener at once, and holds him throughout the movement in a bull-dog grip...
...spasmodic intervals during the past few years. Next week, however, the college will witness the first student art exhibit ever to be seen in any of the Houses. This exhibit, which will be found in the Winthrop Common Room, is, in effect, the public inauguration of an informal movement based upon a common interest in painting on the part of a small group of students, some of whom have attained more than an adequate degree of proficiency in the handling of their medium. John Cumming, a Junior, studied for a while under Diego Rivera; Weren, a Sophomore, was an illustrator...
...always been developing a culture of its own; publications, dramatic clubs, music societies, and countless other organizations dealing with particular aspects of the Arts have more or less become integral parts of the University. Until now, however, there has been no concerted attempt to formulate, even partially, a movement to promote the active interest of those who wish to paint, or the passive interest of those who might wish to see the work of other students. With all due respect to the muscums around Boston and Cambridge, now that members of the University have begun to exhibit works which they...