Word: graphic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Biggest achievement of Man's Hope is not in its characterizations but in the graphic intensity of isolated scenes. A bomber emerging into calm moonlight after blowing up the gasworks at Talavera de la Reina; a fire fighter in Madrid atop his ladder, turning his fire hose in a last, hopeless, defiant gesture against an airplane machine-gunning him; Asturian dinamiteros, "the last body of men who can face the machine on equal terms," crawling forward to meet advancing tanks outside Toledo; the crew of a wrecked bomber carried out of the mountains by peasants, the long, winding, anguished...
Four silhouette pictures of each boy are taken as a part of the record. This is done previous to his medical examination so that a graphic permanent record may be discussed with each student in the examining room as part of his physical education...
...thoughtful citizens Mr. Devree's alternative remedy seemed more sensible: unworried self-limitation and severity on the part of reviewers. Last week there were about 80 exhibitions of painting, sculpture and graphic arts in Manhattan, of which just one newcomer demanded serious discrimination. This was a collection of drawings and paintings by a 27-year-old Milwaukee painter named Paul Lewis Clemens, announced with some fanfare as a "discovery" of University of Wisconsin's resident-artist, John Steuart Curry...
Author Kantor's story is teasing and ingenious rather than effective. As in his Civil War novels (Long Remember, Arouse and Beware, etc.), MacKinlay Kantor has a graphic sense of the U. S. past, writes good descriptive narrative, and creates an atmosphere of tension. But in The Noise of Their Wings he goes lame shuttling between the past and present, and most of his vitality appears to have been exhausted in devising a modern plot. The characters in The Noise of Their Wings resemble real people about as closely as the Smithsonian's well-stuffed passenger pigeon resembles...
...particular interest is the "University Newsreel" which has been compiled from three leading services and gives a graphic picture of Mr. Hitler's ten parties and their momentous outcome...