Word: everyday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only when the people have sufficient inherent artistic talent to produce it. To be sure there have been the cowboy songs of the West, and the ballads of the Kentucky mountains, but there has been nothing which the public could seize as its own, as a part of its everyday life. The obvious answer for the dearth of folk art in America is of course that the country is too large for a single folk lore that is all-inclusive; and also that the average American person is too mechanical and too wrapped up in industry to have the mind...
...thousand dollars is cheap enough for the publicity Harvard is getting from its gallant gesture, but public relations should be subordinate to undergraduate harmony. And there can be no doubt that too narrow a basis will cause student resentment of this appeal and a certain friction in everyday relations. On the other hand, there can be even less doubt that the Committee has tried to place its appeal on a broad plain, although in one or two details it has been short-sighted...
...their friends. Bottom crust are the bands of shady promoters who operate in sinister back-road barnyards or city hideaways- sometimes traveling in a circuit with a portable pit that folds up as simply as a bridge table. But 90% of the U. S. cocking fraternity are plain, everyday citizens...
...work on exhibit invited rude yells from that part of the public which likes to identify the artist with the screwball. What psychiatrists think about that was put simply by Bellevue's animated, mop-haired Dr. Paul Schilder: "A pathological person is forced down under the surface of everyday reality and can't get back. A normal artist can dive down and come back up with the treasure...
...with the vanquished; with violence, and usually with those who suffer by it. To many a reader, as a result, they seem as lurid and shocking as a street accident. This criticism Malraux answers by pointing out that these accidents do happen, that in our own time they are everyday occurrences, that he is reporting the bloody legends of the modern world out of which, he hopes and believes, the golden legends will some day come...