Word: agrarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weary Chancellor turned increasingly to decree-laws. To diminish unemployment, he asked the aged Hindenburg for a decree chopping up the Junker lauded estates and resettling jobless workers on them. The President, dominated by monocled aristocrats like Kurt von Schleicher, demanded the resignation of the "agrarian Bolshevik...
...mystery of the fertility of the arable land," the stirrings of an ancient paganism. An authority on sacred music, he wrote voluminously about it. He also wrote, never published, a monumental history of the end of the Prussian order (since confiscated by the Gestapo), dabbled in local agrarian politics, became president of the Danzig Senate, pondered upon that passage in the writings of the late great Austrian poet, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, which describes the growing revolt against Europe's arid intellectualism: "The process of which I am speaking is nothing less than a Conservative Revolution, on such a scale...
...real colonist is almost always an agrarian. The Latin and Slavic peoples in New England are filtering back into the rural districts and on to the lands...
Japan's No. 1 Christian has written a novel about the life of Jesus. Author is soft-faced, reedy-voiced, myopic Toyohiko Kagawa, who is also Japan's No. 1 writer, turns out quantities of poems, tracts, devotional books, novels on economic and agrarian subjects. Behold the Man (Harper; $2.50) is his most ambitious work...
...storm & strife of what Mexicans still refer to as "the revolution"-a confused and confusing mixture of banditry, adobe-hut Marxism, nationalism and agrarian reform which has been seething for 30 years-rose three great revolutionary artists. Their lurid propaganda paintings (reaching Mexico's illiterate peons far more effectively than printed words) covered walls from Nuevo Leon to Yucatan and revived the art of fresco painting on a scale unequaled since the Italian Renaissance. The three: stocky, effusive Diego Rivera; grim, brooding José Clemente Orozco; pallid, green-eyed, conspiratorial David Alfaro Siquieros...