Word: culturale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The cultural self-consciousness of prewar years was almost gone. U.S. artists were concentrating more on nature, and on themselves. Instead of the sterilized barnyards of "American Scene" art, there were carefully detailed, out-of-the-way beauties. Instead of hoggish politicians and slack-breasted shopgirls, there were powerfully expressionistic...
Last week Iconoclast Johnson, now 70, retired. His successor-"a man after my own heart"-is another farm boy: lean, 49-year-old Brynjolf Jacob (Bryn J. for short) Hovde (rhymes with loved a). Bryn J. has, among other things, toured ,the Chautauqua lecture circuit, taught at the University of...
Speaking Sunday night in Emerson D, Reinhold Niebuhr, of the Union Theological Seminary, identified the "cultural abyss of the age" as man's failure to recognize his basic weakness, insecurity.
The convention, representing 50,000 members of the society from throughout the country, also voted endorsement of American participation in the creation of an international office of education, in accordance with a United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization character adopted at London.
". . . The Soviet Union is the only one of the great Allied powers that retains a strict wartime censorship of news written by foreign correspondents. . . . Censorship in peacetime of all dispatches relating not only to military affairs, but to politics, economics, cultural affairs and to every aspect of life . . . destroys the...