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Word: content (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Again I must say it is ironic: because Wilder was not content just to repeat what Tillich, Cleanth Brooks and others have been saying, because he did not proclaim the Gospel message to the existential situation, because he did not preach, he is condemned for failing to be "powerful and relevant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IN DEFENSE OF WILDER | 12/12/1956 | See Source »

...sits in a desperate middle: if Poles are content for now to seek to alleviate rather than to overthrow Communism, it is because, watching Hungary's revolt with anguished sympathy, they see that other nations will not come to their aid, and they know that Russia is far more determined to hold a neighboring Poland than a distant Hungary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Rebellious Compromiser | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

...fall of 1942 over 3,000 Armed Forces personnel were already taking courses at the University. As the number of civilian students continued to decline, it became increasingly clear that a wartime Harvard education was going to differ markedly in its external trappings, if not in its scholastic content, from that offered in peacetime...

Author: By Lewis M. Steel, | Title: College Life During World War II Based on Country's Military Needs | 12/7/1956 | See Source »

Shahn's integration of form and content is an example to contemporary artists. This exhibit proves how "aesthetic" and formally complex it is possible to be and yet still able to communicate with, and relate to, society...

Author: By Lowell J. Rubin, | Title: The Art of Ben Shahn | 12/6/1956 | See Source »

While still emphasizing content, there are indications that Shahn has become more interested if not merely more adept, in form and color in his recent work. He has become more abstract. James Thrall Soby feels that the artist's reaction of the War as expressed in such pictures as Liberation and Italian Landscape, have led the artist towards a rediscovery of European art. It is apparent that a number of new influences have been felt by the artist since the days of the stumpy and more photographic realism of Sunday Painter. The influence of European masters like Giotto, he acknowledged...

Author: By Lowell J. Rubin, | Title: The Art of Ben Shahn | 12/6/1956 | See Source »

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