Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Throughout most of the Western world in the 1930s, the main body of intellectuals were for Communism as the antithesis of fascism. With the confidence of self-made Goths who had cut themselves off from the politics of civilization, they developed an emotional commitment to a political system that called itself scientific. In Germany, as it happened, thousands of the best-educated men, contemptuous of politics in the early 1920s, committed themselves to fascism. The process was the same. What mattered was not which bad side they chose, but that the self-made Goths were so politically ignorant...
When the Chicago Sun-Times's Pulitzer Prizewinning Cartoonist Jacob Burck, 49, was ordered deported to his native Poland last summer (TIME, July 20), Sun-Times Publisher Marshall Field Jr. sprang to his defense. Burck was charged with having been a member of the Communist Party in the 1930s, and never becoming a U.S. citizen. But Field, taking note of Burck's long record of anti-Communism as exemplified in his political cartoons, backed him to the hilt and lined up top legal talent to fight the deportation. Last week Jerome T. McGowan, special inquiry officer...
...groping, tireless search did not stop as he grew older and stronger. The Webbs were on relief in the 1930s; Jack tramped forth daily with a brown paper bag to collect the wilted carrots and beets that were handed out through public agencies. But at Los Angeles Belmont High School he edged into amateur dramatics, drew cartoons for the school yearbook, and as a senior beat out the football captain to become president of the student body...
...20th century America, fashions in art have altered just as often and drastically as fashions in women's dress. Cocks of the walk in the 1930s were three Midwestern artists who are scarcely mentioned today: Grant Wood, John Steuart Curry and Thomas Hart Benton. Their paintings (opposite and overleaf), included in a current retrospective show at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, are nostalgic reminders of a vanished era in recent U.S. history...
Benton dates his rise from the Great Crash: "Because of the breakdown of our economic society in 1929 and the early 1930s, the effort to come out of the Depression occasioned a terrific concentration on America -what it meant, what it was composed of, why it was the way it was -by Americans. Frankly, Wood, Curry and I profited from this concentration." With a flash of his old fire, Benton adds: "I will say that in the 1930s, art had more public value than it does now. It belonged to the public. Today it's the property...