Word: europeans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Discussing the "Impending Crises in Western Society," Gunner Myrdal, well-known European economist, will inaugurate a new series of four Godkin lectures on the general subject, "The Population Problem and Social Security," at 4 o'clock this afternoon in the New Lecture Hall...
Have you ever noticed that the World Almanac has long used on its cover a map which shows Great Britain (but not Ireland) firmly attached to the European continent? I baited them about this once in the Saturday Review of Lit., but perhaps if mentioned in a journal of slightly larger circulation they might correct it. Who knows? They might at the same time put in five Great Lakes (instead of four) and include Long Island. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY...
...Philadelphians knew that after the exhibitions these paintings went right back into the Museum's storage rooms as part of a $1,000,000 collection of paintings shipped from Paris last year to be held there on "indefinite loan." The lender, still anonymous, is not the only European collector who has recently found it expedient to store his art elsewhere. Last week the Pennsylvania Museum placed on exhibition some 50 late Renoirs never before seen in the U. S., lent for indefinite storage by rich, 34-year-old Philippe Gangnat of Paris...
...doubtful if "Un Carnet de Bal" deserved the Venice award as the greatest picture of 1937. It is far from great; although they may strike American audiences as novel, the trick plot and twisted cynicism are old stuff on the European screen. But Julien Duvivier, master of French directors--he has made better films than this--has given "Un Carnet" the touch of the artist, which combines with competent acting and force photography to make the picture thoroughly worthwhile...
...home, he has settled in Switzerland, his birthplace. U. S. Protestants have been slow to approve and understand this Calvinist, although. Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, one of the ablest of Protestant theologians, has been influenced by him. and Princeton Theological Seminary, a Presbyterian stronghold, has shown leanings toward Barthianism. Of European conditions upon which Barthianism battens. Manhattan clergymen lately were given a vivid picture of Dr. Adolf Keller, Swiss colleague of Dr. Barth. Declaring that a new church based upon faith, poverty, persecution and meekness is arising in Europe. Dr. Keller said: "We may see the end of Christianity...