Word: chauvinist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cyril Gerard Holland, vicar of Ewell, Surrey, deplored such chauvinist talk. Said he: "Let us at least leave God as a neutral." In John Bull, Rev. William McCormick, popularly known as "Pat" McCormick, of St. Martins-in-the-Fields, hazarded that "God must hate it all ... the evil behind this use of force, the misery and suffering. . . . His is the hardest part. He's in the midst of all the suffering because . . . Germans and Allies alike . . . we're all his children...
...must be credited with the intelligence of not stifling its theatrical ventures at the start through making them chauvinist messengers of the New Deal. So frank, if not profound, is the discussion of contemporary disorders, that the sponsors of the play have had to disclaim its points of view. But "Class of '19 does not assail capitalism; Rooseveltism, assumed in this play, dispite Hearst, to be capitalistic; or even Americanism as defended by that staunch old patriot...
...finds indications of it in Muralist Thomas Benton (see cut), "one of the few living artists, in any department, with a first-rate mind.'' Says Critic Craven of this Missouri artist: "To the conservatives he is a Red; to the radicals he is a Chauvinist. His art is too specifically real, too deeply impregnated with what I shall risk calling the Collective American Spirit to touch the purists, Methodists and doctrinaries. . . . Benton's art, apparently, is a direct and unblushing representation of American life." Architect Frank Lloyd Wright meets with Critic Craven's approval...