Word: type
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Picta," by Van der Weyden, is an example of the second, more genuinely artistic type of painting. The artist's interpretation of the dying Christ, far from being an attempt to reenforce the religious aspect of the situation, successfully conveys the more human and personal side of His sacrifice. (Here we find the influence of the Italian Renaissance.) Van der Weyden directs his appeal to the individual as a whole rather than to the religious element within the individual. Christ has become less of a far-distant object of veneration and more of an immediate source of sympathy and feeling...
...less patriotically has closed her famed Paris style shop. "I don't believe in sending just anything to my aviators!" cried Coco last week, explaining that she sends them only the finest English pullovers, stockings and gloves, each .neatly stamped in the corner "Chanel." Exactly opposite in type to Coco is that dignified great lady of the haute couture, Mme Jeanne Lanvin, first woman of her calling ever made Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, famed creator in rich fabrics of the simple robes de style. Mme Lanvin says briefly, "Women should stick to what they do best...
...sort of havoc that might well have been created by a first-class shower of Nazi bombs of the type Poland had last September. Actually, it was caused by a Blitzkrieg of the elements. What gave it additional martial atmosphere was that nowadays British weather is a military secret. The censor-fearing London newspapers carried no weather news at all in a spell of such weather as had not been seen in the Isles for 46 years. Hush-hushed was the fact that the British capital was covered with snow, that snowdrifts twelve feet high were piled...
...program of study will not replace the existing fields of concentration but will merely supplement the same. Properly qualified students will have the choice of specializing in one of the traditional departmental fields, one of the combined fields on one of the new areas. In this way a broader type of education will be made possible and a further step will be taken toward the individualization of education in Harvard College...
...suggested that one or two broad introductory courses of the type proposed in the Council report might be set up an experiment...