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...address for the Paul Block Foundation of Journalism at Yale, Publisher McCormick pointed a finger at his audience and declared: ". . . . Your faces contain brown, yellow and pink; you wear green shirts, blue neckties . . . and yet so limited is the newspaper art that it is compelled to depict you in black and white." A moment later he added: ". . . The art of journalism is the adaptation of old methods to mass production...
...Pennell which represent merely the image that reaches the human eye, the rich oils of Beneker convey all the realism of being, and all the strength and solidity of steel. Perhaps it is the medium in which the work is done that accounts for the difference; the paintings depict with more life-like fidelity and color the shapes of qualities of things, the stylus tends to tinge the reproduction with the impression that the mind receives, and the imagination which is evoked by the vision...
...There have been foolish threats and disturbances when it was announced that we were going to give O'Casey's "Juno and the Paycock," and Synge's "Playboy of the Western World." Just because they depict life realistically and do not hesitate to show the sordid, several self-constituted censors have proposed that we should omit the performances from our repertoire. On the grounds of morality they object to "Juno" because it pictures living conditions among the poor, and in it no Irish girl has an illegitimate child, and of course, no Irish girl would have an illegitimate child. Objections...
...these new painters, the "Surrealistes" attempt to discover a world that is objective, non-abstract, meaningful, and yet inaccessible to the camera. They depict a world of the subconscious imagination, more real than conventional reality, fantastic in so far that it is opposed to the logic of our every-day life. A pocket watch painted as an object so limp and pliable as to be used for a riding saddle, that is not abstract but it is fantastic. The "Surrealistes" of 1924 adopted Freudian psychology as a key to the subconscious world they wished to explore and depict...
Hardly had Mr. Baker's boat passed through the Narrows before speculation began to fit him into the 1932 Democratic puzzle picture. His friends liked to depict him as a rallying point for the "Stop Roosevelt" movement. He was also envisioned as a compromise nominee after a possible deadlock between Smith and Roosevelt forces on the convention floor had spent itself...