Word: european
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hope the New York World's Fair of 1939 may become the occasion for the birth of the American Poster. . . . Poster production in Europe [see TIME, Feb. 28 for posters in Spain] is decades ahead of poster development in this country, simply because European advertisers have learned the commercial benefits of being outrageously noncommercial in poster art. . . . We have nearly all of our posters drawn by "pretty girl" artists and by uninspired hack commercial artists who draw the same banal signs for everybody and for everything...
...Sewannee Review. This fills a gap in the English Department's program, which is notoriously scornful of American literature produced since 1920. In Government, courses in contemporary diplomatic problems, dealing with the latest crises will be given. The Fine Arts Department is offering an extended tour of the European art centers under the supervision of no less an authority than Professor Kenneth Conant...
...Nazi Vienna was a tight bottleneck for Central European news. Correspondents in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece kept Vienna bureaus of the great press organizations primed. Thence the news of Central Europe-much of it brewed by good imaginations in Viennese coffeehouses- flowed out to the world comparatively free of censorship...
...much of their Hitler-baiting background, thought it best for his health to flee Austria. Acme's Photographer Ernest Kleinberg, a Polish Jew, was taken into "protective custody." By week's end transfer of several foreign news service bureaus to suppression-free Prague, Budapest and other Central European capitals was under...
...also spent much time studying the Abbey of Cluny in Burgundy first European church to have pointed arches, tracing the origin of these arches through southern Italy to northern Africa...