Word: crossed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...done entirely in black & white. For the north wall Matisse plans a picture of St. Dominic, twice life size, and beside him the Virgin and Child in a field of stars. The east wall will be more ambitious than anything Matisse ever tried, combining all 14 Stations of the Cross-from the Condemnation by Pilate to the Descent from the Cross-in a mounting S-curve of pictures. Since Matisse cannot work for long on his feet, he will be unable to paint the pictures on the walls directly, plans to do them on tile which will afterward be baked...
...night in September a fiery cross was burned on the lawn of the old governor's mansion of Milledgeville, Ga. (pop. 6,800), once the capital of the state. In the mansion lives President Guy Wells of the Georgia State College for Women, where a group of Negro college educators was meeting. They were frightened out of town. Fortnight ago three men were arrested after a Negro's house was shot up, and there was talk around town that night riders had been driving Negro families out of the county. Such terrorism caused Georgia's oldest weekly...
Last week the editorial brought some action. While Editor Jere Moore, 46, and his wife were out to dinner, a fiery cross was burned on their front lawn. But Editor Moore, an antiaircraft colonel in the Pacific in World War II, was not to be intimidated. He came right back with a defiant editorial accusing the Ku Klux
Klan of threatening freedom of the press. Said he: ". . . We shall fight to the death to keep the press free." At week's end, ten leading Milledgevillagers put up a $1,000 reward to help catch cross-burners. Said Editor Moore: "I think we're going to get somewhere this time...
Harried Capital. As brisk, top-of-the-mind journalism, The Grand Design is fun. Dos Passos has fixed his sights on New Deal Washington, located its telltale landmarks: harried officials, their minds cross-grained with idealism and opportunism; ascetic lunches, reflecting the prevalence of ulcers; gaps of hollow loneliness between lunges of ambition; and pure-souled efforts of some men to serve their country without profit...