Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wagner selected the local manager. He had an obligation to determine his financial responsibility in advance. When he placed Mr. Thomas' recital in the local manager's charge (and note that Mr. Wagner used the term "local manager") he took upon himself a responsibility to the artist's patrons that he and the artist could not escape. The prestige of the artist secured the subscriptions of the patrons, not the reputation nor the ability of the local manager...
...Wagner places the fee of the artist before the responsibility of himself and of the artist to the public. Both Mr. Wagner and Mr. Thomas are placed in the position where they can protect themselves; the generous public who support both but which cannot safeguard its interests is left out of consideration...
...artist Sean O'Faolain has the good fortune to be obsessed by a single idea. Readers of "Midsummer Night's Madness" will recall how the formally unrelated short stories in that book all elaborated a central theme; the change--usually a disintegrating change--wrought upon its characters by the stress of a hopeless political revolt. In "A Nest of Simple Folk" the pattern of a family chronicle extending in time from 1854 to 1906 is woven about a similar theme. By tracing the fortunes of three generations of Irish men and women, Mr. O'Faolain has been able to realize...
...outlined above. The book as a whole reminds one forcibly of the fortunate position which the Irish writer enjoys. Sean O'Faolain belongs to a culture which has felt intensely the impact or modern social unheavals, and simultaneously enjoyed the revival of rich and ancient national culture. As an artist he has profited by the great achievement of James Joyce in creating a mature racial conscience, while as an individual he is closer to the soil than Joyce ever was. The stripped and ungainly realism frequent in contemporary novels is not forced on a man with such a background...
...Author is tiny but Irish, with strong nerves and a sense of humor. She repeats the description a Communist girl organizer gave of her: "You have a baby face and pert manners. . . . You think you're an artist. . . . You're the kind of person I want to see killed!" Born 24 years ago in the slums of Washington, D. C., where her parents were social workers, Authoress Gilfillan has always had a "penchant for 'bums.' " By the time she was 14 she had run away from home twice to see the world. At 17, her parents...