The Power Center for the Performing Arts

The Power Center for the Performing Arts is an active, living theatre arts center. Its architectural beauty, adaptability and flexbility make it a vital performing center for the Theatre Programs of The University of Michigan. The vision and generosity of the distinguished Regent Emeritus Eugene B. Power and his family and the theatre "First Nighters" have made this possible.

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Margaret Miller as Miss Ford. 1st Prize, Daytona Beach, July 4, 1930. Beauty contest sponsored by Daytona Beach Automobile Assoc. Entered by Harry Wilcox Motor Co. Ford and Lincoln dealers.

Essays on Petrarch,

On the love of Petrarch.--On the poetry of Petrarch.--On the character of Petrarch.--A parallel between Dante and Petrarch.--Appendix: I. Specimens of Petrarch's Latin poetry. II. Specimens of Greek amatory poetry, from Sappho down to the writers of the lower empire. III. A theory of Platonic love, by Lorenzo de' Medici. IV. Comparative description of woman's beauty according to Platonic ideas, by the early Italian poets. V. Petrarch's unpublished letters in Italian (with facsimile) VI. A letter, in Latin, of Dante's lately discovered (Epistola "amico florentino") VII. Translations from Petrarch, by Barbarina lady Dacre.

Several sermons and discourses of William Dell ... Heretofore published at several times, and on several occasions; and now gathered in one volumn ...

The sermons have separate title-pages dated 1651.

The English works of the late Rev. Eliezer Williams ... with a memoir of his life.

Memoir of the Rev. Eliezer Williams.--Appendix to the memoir.--An historical essay on the manners and customs of the ancient Celtic tribes, particularly their marriage ceremonies.--An historical essay on the taste, talents, and literary acquisitions of the Druids, and the ancient Celtic bards.--Historical anecodes relative to the energy, beauty, and melody, of the Welsh language, and its affinity to the Oriental languages, and those of the south of Europe.--An inquiry into the situation of the gold mines of the ancient Britons.--History of the Britons.

Lectures on painting and design.

v.1. Origin of the art. Anatomy the basis of drawing. The skeleton. The muscles of man and quadruped. Standard figure. Composition. Colour. Ancients and moderns. Invention.--v.2. Fuzeli. Wilkie. Effect of the societies on taste. A competent tribunal. On fresco. Elgin marbles. Beauty.

Essays speculative and suggestive /

v. 1. The philosophy of evolution. On the application of evolutionary principles to art and literature. On some principles of criticism. The provinces of the several arts. On the relation of art to science and morality. Realism and idealism. The model. Beauty, composition, expression, characterisation. Caricature, the fantastic, the grotesque. Notes on style: History and usage of the word; National style.-v. 2. Notes on style: Personal style; The art of style. Democratic art, with special reference to Walt Whitman. Landscape. Nature myths and allegories. Is poetry at bottom a criticism of life? A review of Matthew Arnold's selection from Wordsworth. Is music the type or measure of all art? The pathos of the rose in poetry. A comparison of Elizabethan with Victorian poetry. Appendix.

Practical hints on portrait painting: illustrated by examples from the works of Vandyke and other masters.

"This work ... originated in an essay on the beauty and character of the human countenance, from which ... many of the thoughts and arrangements are taken and engrafted."--Pref.

Report to the President and to the President's Council on Environmental Quality

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