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...long clearing in a fragrant pine forest in North Carolina. There, awaiting its first formal inspection by important outsiders, stood the most prodigious new educational project in the land this century?Duke University, now nearly complete though little grass yet grows on its sandy campus, no ivy on its neo-Gothic walls of soft-colored fieldstone...
...just as there was a real foundation for the attacks of the early primitivists against the neo-classicism of eighteenth century France, so there is a great deal of truth in Professor Mearns' criticism of modern pedagogy. He points out that it is instinctive for the child to tell the truth, which is often so embarrassing to the adult, and that the grownup tries to stifle this natural virtue in order to conform to social conventions. As a poet, too, Mr. Mearns believes that the child has possibilities which if encouraged would produce far greater poetry than that which...
...chief examples by the two pictures by Wateau; several examples of the different styles of Fragonard, still life pictures by Chardin, and a group of contemporary portraits. Watteau's paintings "Minuet" and "Fete Champetre" show clearly the lightness and frivolity of the court art. The advent of the neo-classic expression in painting subsequent to the Revolution and prevalent during the Napoleonic era, is represented by the large portrait of a lady by David...
...charm of Wrexham Court and its tower ("copy of Wrexham Tower, England, built 1506"), or the artificially-cracked window panes and impressive, scholarly gloom of Harkness chambers which resulted from the building being designed principally from the outside. Originally intended to give U. S. education a hoary, spiritual aspect, neo-Gothic has only lately been used by radically-minded undergraduates as an issue through which an entire cultural system can be criticized. Last week, in the second issue of a new insurgent undergraduate magazine, The Harkness Hoot, some of Yale's youngsters played hob with copyist architecture, drew a distinction...
...public prints seemed doubtful, unconvincingly called it "music on the grand scale" or echoed Critic Herbert Hughes's (London Daily Telegraph) florid romantics, printed in the program. Reflective listeners decided Launcelot might be more effective if halved, with fewer thematic repetitions, or conversely, expanded into a full-length, Neo-Wagnerian opera as Coates first intended to do. Bold or brave was he to introduce his work on the same night with such magna opera as Respighi's orchestration of Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue, Strauss's ghastly, gay, Till Eulenspiegels...