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...treatment of such arts as painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, and the motion picture, is bound to be cursory in a survey so short and, compact as this, but while the expert may not be wholly satisfied by many generalizations, the general reader will find much information presented in an easily digestible form. Thus in the space at his disposal Mr. Cahill, for example, summarizes American achievement in painting and sculpture more succinctly than it has ever been summarized before (within the memory, at any rate of this reviewer). If he is too severe with Whistler, or too lenient and even...
...Right is Reader Moffett, nephew of Federal Housing Administrator James A. Moffett. Under Navy administration, not even airplanes were permitted to fly over closed Tortugas. But as a National Monument it will be opened to visitors...
...Reader Verseput saw correctly...
...year. As straight a reporter of U. S. dialect as the late great Ring Lardner and straighter than Hemingway, he writes without bitterness, without pity. The effect is unpleasant but cruelly true to U. S. life. His first novel, Appointment in Samarra (TIME, Aug. 20), offended many a reader, excited many a critic. This collection of sketches and short stories will raise the same echo...
...writer states that the murals are morally weakening to the student body of that college. A mural, whether it is good or bad, is no more morally weakening to the beholder than is "Gulliver's Travel's" to the reader. No student will be made any more immoral than he already is by looking at a graphic representation of the development of an American civilization, whether it is well done or not. As the writer is representing Harvard--which spends a good deal of its time delving into local college history and perpetuating local tradition,--he is certainly...