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Many of the Carnegie exhibitors take the opposite approach, hastily dropping their brushes as soon as their work begins to resemble something. But in abstract art the effect's the thing, not the method-and, as the 39th Carnegie proves, a slew of puzzling, annoying, innocuous or pleasing effects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Natural Language? | 10/27/1952 | See Source »

But a large turnout can cause susrprising and pleasing results; the national election in Japan Wednesday is a good example. Dopesters, figuring on a lower percentage of voters, decided the Communists would lose some seats in the Diet but would still be a factor. Every Communist voter was certain to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wipe That Grin | 10/3/1952 | See Source »

Vacation over, '27 came back for his last term of residence. One of the more pleasing aspects of the Spring Term was the hockey team, which was sweeping over Dartmouth and Yale for the Eastern title. In the game against Notre Dame, won 7 to 0, '27 saw the strange...

Author: By Michael Maccory, | Title: Athletic Rift with Nassau Marked Last Year for '27 | 6/18/1952 | See Source »

John Updike once again has done most of the literacy and art work for the 'Poon, and while his writing is clear and witty as usual, mass production seems to have dulled his choice of material. One poem treats the case of the intellectual whose appreciation of literature has one...

Author: By Michael J. Halberstam, | Title: The Lampoon | 6/16/1952 | See Source »

Periodic outbursts of complaints about meal-planning--such as the recent one in which all irate girl appealed directly to President Jordan--are a regular part of the 'Cliffe scene. Miss Burdakin defends her office against these charges, pointing out the difficulties in pleasing so large a community.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mon. Meat Energy Restorer For Wornout Radcliffe Girls | 4/24/1952 | See Source »

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