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...changes those years have wrought in American painting were made dramatically clear by the shows. In Manhattan, the standout exhibits were Seth Eastman's Lacrosse Playing Among the Sioux Indians and Albert Bierstadt's The Last of the Buffalo -both brown, spacious, romantic and unabashedly illustrative. The Washington show was long on flat, bright abstractions that would have meant no more to Eastman and Bierstadt than so many Indian blankets. First prize of $2.000 and a gold medal went to Walter Plate, 33, for Hot House, a big, lush bouquet of thick colors, which thus became the Corcoran...
These are not the questions of an Angry Young Man. They are "pebbles at the window" of complacency thrown by Thomas Griffith, 43, TIME'S Foreign Editor. Equable tempered, well wrought and carefully thought out, The Waist-High Culture is more inquiry than indictment, utters its qualms with conviction and its convictions with some qualms. It is not a call to the cultural barricades, but an invitation to ponder and reflect on the occasionally wayward American...
...American pilots' victory, which will set the pace for the whole industry, was wrought at great cost to others. Some 20,000 other American employees were put out of work for a week by the 22-day strike. American and its suppliers lost an estimated $33 million...
...Summer, written in 1934, is an autobiographical reverie evoking the summer of 1914, "that last summer when life still appeared to pay heed to individuals, and when it was easier and more natural to love than to hate." Of the earlier tales, only The Childhood of Luvers, a sensitively wrought, Proustian account of a girl at puberty accepting her womanhood, is memorable...
...sorts of possibilities open up. Beach umbrellas could be set up for rainy days. Little wrought iron tables could be put the length of the Shelf by some enterprising individual who wants to give the Mozart and Tulla's some competition...