Word: clearer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wants them to the good buildings, better than have ever been constructed before, and more of them. His views might well from a third parallel, pointing in the same direction as the two Harvard reports. May the ambitions of all three men as regards building grow closer and clearer until the time comes when they can blend in the achievements of their object together...
...seven opened with the important Surrealist Exhibition at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art and closed with an exhibition of The Eternal City by Peter Blume, whose work has been called "an American form of Surrealism." But the definite character and strength of U. S. painting is nowhere clearer than in the fact that Blume's painting is actually not Surrealist but an original, explicitly symbolic picture designed to say a good deal to the waking, not the subconscious, mind. To many critics the year in U. S. painting was full of striking evidence of this growth...
...Testament is not just a history book; it is a statement of philosophy, a piece of poetry, and the expression of a fundamental outlook on Man and the Unknown. But philosophy, poetry, and religion are clearer to some minds than to others; if they are to survive in our society, men must be found to explain them, to expound them, to give them life. At Harvard such a man has taken a Bible course, declining into dotage, inspired it with his own enthusiasm, chiselled it with his incisive mind, and made it one of the most popular and influential courses...
...hold, starboard side." Informed that in Uvalde, Tex. Vice President Garner had developed a kind of "magic seed" which might make grass grow under the trees on the White House lawn, the President asked him to send for some. At week's end, he made his attitude even clearer. Leaving Congress to struggle along in Washington, he boarded a train for Florida, there to embark on a week's fishing trip in the Caribbean. In the party that boarded the Potomac at Miami were WPA Administrator Harry Hopkins, Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes and Assistant Attorney General...
...kindlier version of life on the sod-house frontier than does Slo-gum House, which shows Gulla's successful villainy still ripening in her rotten old age. Overburdened with violence to a point that occasionally touches burlesque, Slogum House is nevertheless written with power, gives a clearer picture of the wild environment than of the people who fought to make it better or the ones, like Gulla, who tried to make it worse...