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...many centuries authors have tried to portray the power of Christ and his influence over all men. The picture has been drawn in innumerable ways, by E. Temple Thurston has found perhaps the most striking device possible in the story of "The Wandering...
...Author-Grim-faced Vardis Fisher's life, like his hero's, has been hard. Says he: "I try to portray life as I see and have seen it; and because I have seen so much that is brutal and ruthless, vulgar and unlessoned and because I believe that all aspects of human life belong in serious novels, my books are called brutal and ruthless. . . . The only good book, in my opinion, is an honest book, and no book, I am sure, can be honest and wholly...
...That Passeth All Understanding" (music by Gluck); "The Universality of God" (Beethoven); "The Voice of One Crying in the Wilderness" (Bach); "The Deep Sense of Abiding in God" (Beethoven); "Angels Announcing the Coming of the Messiah" (Bach). The whole thing was a "Sermon in Six Dances" meant to portray "The Coming of the Messiah...
...Century of Progress Fair, is now stored in an Indianapolis warehouse because the State lacks a suitable place to exhibit it. All three have a nervous electric quality which is peculiarly Benton's and which his pupils often try but fail to imitate. Painted from recognizable observations, all three portray such typical Americana as revivalists, bootleggers, stevedores, politicians, soda clerks...
...special focus is on the use made of the press. The average man forms his impressions of world affairs largely from the columns of his daily newspaper. What assurance is there that these columns portray the truth? In fully half the countries of the globe, the news was probably gathered by local news agencies (governmentally-controlled) and turned over to the American press representative. He also has access, in some cases, to an official press bureau of the government, and to a government-inspired or-controlled local press. What material he assembles perhaps then must run the gauntlet...