Word: depictions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago Field Museum is trying to depict the races of mankind to the best of modern belief (TIME, Oct. 5), why do they depict the typical Nordic male as a bulge-muscled athlete. There is another statue in existence, taken from measurements of typical Americans, which shows the Nordic male in his slump-shouldered, pot-bellied self. The least the Museum could do is to put a rubber abdomen on their statue, to be inflated for anthropologists, deflated for art-lovers. HAROLD WOOSTER...
Following up Nominee Landon's lead, the Republican National Committee last week scattered over the U. S. a sheaf of Press releases on taxation, a brochure entitled Soak the Rich Taxes Really Soak the Poor. Purpose of both was to depict the tax load supposedly borne by the Little...
...crucial instant the U. S. Government gave the exhibition some needful publicity when New York customs officials refused to accept 19 strange objects as nondutiable sculpture. They based their ruling on a judicial decision which states that sculpture as an art must depict "natural objects in their true proportion." Things were at an impasse since the avowed purpose of all abstract sculpture was to depict nothing at all but to stand on its own merits as pure design. President Conger Goodyear of the Modern Museum promptly protested...
Wrote William Andrew Me Andrew: "Norman Rockwell, erstwhile giver of delight by his depiction of lovable and quaint rugged individualists, took the Evening Post's money to do this ulcerous thing. . . . No decent allegiance to the American ideals of education, as formulated by Washington, Franklin and other founders of the nation . . . can be maintained if public prints throw disrespect on education and on women. The cartoonists drawing teachers depict pretty women, now. The Saturday Evening Post's bad break is probably a relapse, a case of atavism, a recollection by some unhappy old man who told Rockwell what...
...depict a U. S. scene in a purely U. S. way," George Gershwin worked earnestly for two years, visited Charleston, for local atmosphere, closeted himself in his penthouse apartment for five hours a day, composed steadily in town throughout the summer, clad in beach shorts and shirt. From the beginning he was determined to have his opera indigenous to the U. S. He was fascinated by the beauty of Negro singing, the spontaneity of Negro acting. Said he: "They've tried the Indian dozens of times but unfortunately with little success...