Word: creational
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...call it the best novel yet written on the Civil War because he remembers. "The Red Badge of Courage" and Evelyn Scott's "The Wave," "Gone With the Wind" is not a "deep" book; its value lies in the scope of its narrative and in its extraordinary fine re-creation of an atmosphere. Despite that it is set in times of great historic significance it is a book of persons rather than of events...
...Reconstruction Finance Corporation reported that for the first time since its creation in 1932 borrowers were repaying RFC loans almost three times as rapidly as new commitments were made...
...piece of imaginative creation," explained the morose, poker-faced painter pointing to his master work. "If people see a nude in it I don't object. Anyway I long ago quit painting and took up chess. 1 was becoming a professional painter, and professionalism is always the death of Art. The old masters were professionals, which means that they were one-man factories. Art isn't made in factories. ... I find California a white spot in a gloomy world...
...frustrations. But they can admire without reservation his narrative style, bare but not bleak, naturalistic but not dull, and his cunning blend of the literary and the colloquial. Dos Passos believes that a writer's modest job is to be an "architect of history." He never talks about creation in connection with his work. His job, he feels, is simply to arrange the materials, confining any artistic high jinks to decoration that will enhance the outlines of the building without weakening its structure...
Purring out of Paris a sleek car carried new French Premier Leon Blum last week to Geneva. There, while Sanctions are disposed of (see above), M. Blum proposed to lobby industriously in League corridors for creation of a United States of Europe. That France would make this move was announced to the Chamber in solemn terms last week by the Jewish Premier's obsequious Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos. Said he: "We shall ask for the convocation of the Commission of Study for a European Union that was created by Aristide Briand. This commission includes all European States, whether members...