Word: americans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hollywood has to cope every day with pressure groups, but last week moviemen felt pressure from a fading minority which it has used as a villain ever since the movies were galloping tintypes. The Association on American Indian Affairs formed a national committee to get better movie treatment of the red man. Announced the association's president, Novelist Oliver (Laughing Boy) La Farge: "Motion-picture producers themselves are now more responsive to the problem, and are taking significant steps in current feature productions to give Indian material fair and authentic treatment...
...colored by personal questioning, confusion and discontent; but also showing through was a determination to express both personal and public dilemmas and to face them firmly. More than in recent years, fiction in 1949 leavened its cynicism with compassion. In a great deal of nonfiction, skepticism was tempered with American optimism: though happiness and order might have to be earned, they were not irrevocably beyond reach...
...Pilgrim, Joyce Gary's fourth novel to be published in the U.S., was a knowing, good-humored look at 20th Century British manners & morals seen through the eyes of an old Victorian individualist. England's shyest novelist and one of her best, Henry Green, made his American bow with Loving. A dense, subtly written and poetic novel of character with an Irish-castle setting, it fully deserved the British critical puffs that preceded it. The most overrated British novel of the year was Hope Muntz's care fully researched but woodenly written The Golden Warrior, the story...
...those who served his purposes." Solid to Fascinating. Most of the year's good biographies had literary figures for their subjects. Others ranged from worthy-solid (Historian Samuel Flagg Bemis' authoritative but somewhat unwieldy career study of John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy} to fascinating (Richard Aldington's The Strange Life of Charles Waterton, an en gaging story of an English eccentric...
Both the aims and the recipients of American propaganda in Germany and Austria differ from those in France and Italy, where the State Department is concerned primarily with selling America and American good works in competition with Communists. The problem is far more complex in the occupied countries, where the U.S. is more involved with influencing a whole way of life toward democracy. The first element in this change must be respect. America has acheived this for its material accomplishments, but our propaganda has not demonstrated the worth and vitality of democratic--and more specifically, American--culture...