Word: graphic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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CHINA'S MILLIONS - Anna Louise Strong-Knight ($2.50). Revised edition of a graphic, eye-witness account of Chinese Revolution of 1927, carrying the record to 1935, incorporating new matena on the Chinese Soviets, the Japanese advance into Manchuria, developments of the Kuomintang...
...hopeful effort to bring U. S. art to persons outside a few big cities got under way last week with a preview exhibition in Manhattan's Weyhe Gallery of 105 etchings and lithographs by 38 of the best-known graphic artists in the U. S. Sponsored by an organization known as American Artists Group, Inc. the prints are all framed alike, under transparent celluloid instead of glass to prevent breakage in shipment, within a month four identical shows of similar prints will be traveling to department stores in 50 provincial cities accompanied by elaborate catalogs, and a lecturer...
...title is misleading, for it is primarily an anthology of the great knockouts of literature. For straight graphic writing, Homer's account of Odysseus' one-punch victory over Irus, and of Epeios' equally effective slugging of Euryalos, make subsequent reports on fisticuffing seem cloudy and selfconscious. When Euryalos was hit, he leaped up "as when beneath the North Wind's ripple a fish leapeth" and was forthwith dragged from the ring with his legs trailing, spitting clotted blood, his head drooping awry...
...native son, able head of the department of journalism at the University of Alabama, and respectfully regarded by his fellow-Tuscaloosans. In 90° in the Shade he drew a biting "psychograph" of the South. Even unreconstructed Southerners admitted that its lines paralleled the facts but called it a graphic misrepresentation...
Author Pratt subtitles his book "an informal history." Written with a colloquial enthusiasm that will not recommend it to more academic historians, Ordeal by Fire has no theory to grind, parades its swift narrative of the war years in a series of graphic scenes. It opens in the dingy bridal suite of a Philadelphia hotel in February 1861, with Lincoln, the President-elect, listening to Detective Pinkerton's warnings of the plot to assassinate him as he passes through Baltimore next day. The outlines of Author Pratt's story are familiar to every schoolboy, but he vitalizes...