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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Excellence of The Wind lay not only in its severe economy of line, color and composition but in its classic clarity of mood. By comparison People (see cut), by U.S. Artist Arnold Blanch, winner of third prize ($500), seemed a stiff bit of social consciousness greatly damaged by the fumbling inclusion of Washington, D.C. In the U.S. section of 102 paintings, critics found as great or greater pleasure in Bernard Karfiol's big, soft Summer; John Marin's Sea with-Red Sky, a small canvas with a whipped cream lather of white paint which at 60 feet carried...
...five-room, one-story ''dream house" on the President's lately purchased, 70-acre tract next to his mother's estate at Hyde Park. In his rendered perspective drawings, Architect Toombs respectfully subscribed himself only as an "associate" of Architect Roosevelt (unlicensed). Comparison of Mr. Roosevelt's sketches with Mr. Toombs's finished plans revealed a fairly high degree of competence in the amateur, only minor improvements by the professional. Mr. Roosevelt had placed his bedroom windows badly, had left little wall space for beds. Mr. Toombs corrected this, slightly increased the size...
...furnished an announcer, John Martin, who gives a running account of the proceedings without sounding like a hysteric with crumbs in his throat. The net result is an entertainment which not only makes the Dark Continent cease to seem dull but makes many Holly-wood A pictures soporific by comparison. Best bit part: Pygmy kibitzer sneering at the bridge building...
...ones, add up to 495 pages of superb prose, and make the collection one of the biggest literary bargains of the year. Best of the new tales. The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, sums up Hemingway's fundamental credo as well as anything he has written. In comparison with such brief and finished works which combine psychological subtlety with adventure, The Fifth Column seems ragged and confused. This Hemingway explains by saying that "in going where you have to go ... and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with." He adds...
...Bluenose" and the "Thebaud" also present an interesting comparison with the recent J boat races for the America's Cup. With the sailing as it has been conducted off Newport refined to the point in which boats and men are made so sensitive they are almost machinelike, the champions of the Gloucester and Lunenberg fleets make a healthy contrast. There is no hierarchy of yacht racing associations, of new tank-tested boats every year. The false atmosphere of tailored yachting uniforms, professionals who groom the sleek boats for "amateurs" to take the tiller in the races and a society that...