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...passing years, an added importance. It has become about as accurate a thermometer as critics have to show the temperature and trends of current U. S. painting. Reading the Whitney thermometer as of last week it might be said that abstract painters and technical experimenters are rapidly vanishing. Most present-day artists are now concerned with such Americana as lynching, unemployment, militarism, middle-class stupidity, lower-class squalor. Dozens of able artists have in 1934 found bread lines and burlesque shows more interesting than bunches of zinnias in a pewter vase...
Likening present-day religion to the trickling remains of a once mighty African river, Dr. Schweitzer said that idealism has given way to realism: "What is characteristic of our age is that we no longer really believe in social or spiritual progress, but face reality powerless." Identifying idealism with ethics and with "thinking religion," he recalled that this spirit flourished in the 18th Century, that it gave impetus to such reforms as the abolition of slavery, that its great desire was "to make the kingdom of God a reality on earth." But in the 19th Century Napoleon Bonaparte and philosophers...
Searching for signs of hope, Dr. Schweitzer concluded that there is no other remedy for present-day ills than the ethics of Jesus which, reduced to simplest terms, is "reverence for all life." Said he: "We wander in darkness now, but one with another we all have the conviction that we are advancing to the light...
...conditioning." says Chemist Arthur Dehon Little's Industrial Bulletin, "is probably the lustiest and liveliest of the present-day infant industries. It is truly an infant, for it has great vigor, makes plenty of noise, costs a lot of money, is much talked about and is referred to as 'hopeful.' " This brawling infant's importance was recognized last week by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers which awarded its 1934 medal to Willis Haviland Carrier, accredited founder of the air-conditioning industry...
...rehearsal of Bertrand Russell's sex opinions makes the 1920's seem a long time ago. Present-day laws and ideas about sex he regarded as an outdated hodgepodge based on the once inescapable connection between coitus and conception. Any man and woman, he boldly argued, should be free to live together without even the slim ties of Judge Ben Lindsey's companionate marriage, to part at any time until the woman became pregnant. Even then their bond should not be indissoluble. But he counseled parents to resort to divorce only for the gravest of reasons. Simple...