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...their craft. Greenshields, who paints seashore scenes in his spare time, deplores the fact that few young artists today get enough basic training. He blames "the iconoclasm and unbridled license of a rapidly growing and articulate group of artists and their sup porters who manifest a positive obsession to distort and, where possible, to dispense with all natural forms." Greenshields' huffing and puffing will never blow down the mansion of modern art, for it is no house of cards. But when artists say, as did Montreal Painter Goodridge Roberts, that Greenshields has chosen "a discouraging way to spend...
...change the face of painting, but because he has become a symbol of the conflict between art and breadwinnery, artistic duty and normal social responsibility. In their fine study, the Hansons' own sympathy is with the artist, but never to a point where they try to suppress or distort the other side of the conflict...
...further complicating factor in every index is the frequent stock splits, which distort the statistics. If a Dow-Jones stock is split three for one, for example, it is given a statistical weight greater than its former importance. Hence a stock like General Electric, which has been split twelve times since 1929, is relatively more important in the average than one such as General Foods or Woolworth which has had no splits...
...journalistic candor, for the professional intellectuals in journalism have loudly boasted for years about reporting in the "public interest." Now we see an enormous admission that some highly placed typescribblers permitted themselves to accept handouts from a prejudiced side of a highly important public controversy and thus to distort the substance of a highly important decision. And lazy editors followed the lines handed out by Oppenheimer's lawyers...
...Committee's statement which read: "We believe that they (the President and Corporation ) will preserve an atmosphere in which the right of a teacher to retain his position will not be questioned as long as he does not act unlawfully or immorally or does not use his position to distort facts or to insist upon the acceptance of his own beliefs as the only possible truths." Moore said he felt that these criteria would allow a person to use the Fifth Amendment to avoid testimony...