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...absence of the Red Book, the Album will increase its scope so that Freshman as well as Sophomore and Junior activities will be covered. A greatly enlarged House section will portray life in the Houses, where all undergraduate goings-on will henceforth be centered...
Later in the broadcast the Crimson Network's Radio Workshop will present a short dramatic script, written by Harold C. Fleming '44, which will portray for the Cambridge University undergraduate the part that the individual Harvard student is playing in the emergency...
...orthodox history-book, and is more concerned with manners and tastes than with treaties and wars. All the same, I have certainly not sought to restrict the book to the merely decorative or picturesque it attempts a big canvas, deals seriously with human ideas and emotions, and seeks to portray human beings as truthfully as possible. Perhaps the book's character can be best summed up as concrete rather than abstract,' descriptive rather than analytical. . . . It deals with certain important men and women, not to provide much in the way of factual biography, but to express their feelings...
...Inness represented the deep religious affection of men of his time for American nature," he explained. "Then after 1900, interest shifted to the rough vigor of the city under the 'Ash Can School.' Today Thomas Benton has broadened out to portray all phases of our life in his murals, whose composition shows the conflict of forces at work in modern times...
Actor Evans always holds the stage; he does not always portray his part. His Macbeth at times has a tortured imagination and reckless cruelty, but never a great warrior's strength or a tragic hero's stature. Evans has the instinct of a reciter, a soloist, reaching out with vocal magnetism to the audience rather than working in with his fellow actors on the stage. He doesn't, for example, talk to the murderers of Banquo; the murderers simply seem to be there so that he can talk. He brings more to the play than...