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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are some excellent reproductions in color of fifteenth century Flemish paintings in the Germanic Museum. The impressive but small dyptich by van der Goes contains "Pieta" and "Adam and Eve," two classic examples of Flemish art at its best. The exact treatment of detail which can be found in almost any Flemish painting done by an artist of this period, makes each work of art a scholarly achievement. It is true that during the fifteenth century the Renaissance was well on its way toward what proved to be a comprehensive exodus from the medieval tradition, but nothing is more...
Even before he became head of the Defense Council, he had spied out promising young officers in the Army, had them sent to France and Germany to study military science. Back in Finland, these men rose quickly to key positions, worked out in detail the tactics Mannerheim laid down. When the war began and he returned as Commander in Chief of all of Finland's armed forces, they knew what they...
...York City, announcing that they had plotted to overrun the East, bomb Reds, exterminate Jews, set up a dictatorship (TIME, Jan. 22). Detroit's radiorating Father Charles E. Coughlin loudly and specifically disavowed the Christian Front to which the captives belonged. The press dug up additional detail, indicating that the captive Christian Fronters were "awful" shots and mere blustering braggarts. Michigan's squat, swart Congressman Frank Hook tried to hook Red-daubing Martin Dies to people who were friendly to the Front, failed to excite a Congress in mourning for veteran Senator Borah (see above...
...Alfredo Gramajo Gutierrez's Election Day in the North of Argentina, a colorful crowd of sombreroed men voting, drinking, eating, playing mandolins, smoking and electioneering, painted with an eye for detail that recalled the jampacked canvases of Pieter Breughel...
...love, take a shack and shift for themselves on the Cornish coast. The young man writes books, from which he gets too little money; the young woman works very hard and is very "gallant." The arduous simplicities of their living and their small adventures are described in great detail; they have a baby; they are very happy indeed. Warm readers will find the tale disarming; cool readers may wonder whether love so nearly cloudless is interesting enough to write or read about. It may, however, forerun a wartime wave of back-to-the-bed "escape" novels...