Word: hart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...punctually, as many an earlier planned exhibit did not, American Art Today turned out to be the biggest show of its kind ever put on. From some 25,000 entries, judges chose 1,214 examples of painting, sculpture and the graphic arts. The roster of well-known names-Thomas Hart Benton, Eugene Speicher, Adolf Dehn, George Grosz, Edward Hopper, Charles Burchfield, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, William Zorach, Peggy Bacon, many another-is long, but incomplete. Some (Georgia O'Keefe, Jose de Creeít) did not submit anything. Some (Frederick Waugh, Robert Brackman) were turned down...
Dorothy Thompson prophesied that Adolf Hitler would never rule Germany. Herbert Matthews called the Italian defeat at Guadalajara one of the decisive battles of history. Liddell Hart said Ethiopian mobile tactics would probably swamp Mussolini's invaders. Edgar Ansel Mowrer said that two years of the Chinese War would see Japan's morale crack. G. E. R. Gedye said the Czechoslovakian Army would fight before it would yield. And long ago, before modern methods of communication made foreign correspondence a large and thriving profession, the London Times asserted that, in capturing Atlanta, Sherman had merely lengthened his lines...
...newsstands appeared Vol. 1, No. 1 of Equality, "A Monthly Journal to Defend Democratic Rights and Combat Anti-Semitism and Racism." Conceived by Prince Hubertus zu Löwenstein (a Catholic), Equality has on its editorial council such prominent Jewish intellectuals as Publisher Bennett Cerf, Playwrights Moss Hart and Lillian Hellman, Anthropologist Franz Boas. Its first issue contains articles on anti-Semitism by such potent non-Jews as Columnist Dorothy Thompson, Author Donald Ogden Stewart, Warden Lewis E. Lawes, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick. Its credo...
...German Army, which had already retreated 100 miles, with a loss by capture of 390,000 men and 6,600 guns-the largest in the history of military operations-fled through Belgium, Holland, over the Rhine, swiftly and efficiently, in a manner that Liddell Hart viewed not as a rout but as a skilful military movement...
Last week a few days before Adolf Hitler, Thomas Hart Benton celebrated his 50th birthday with a big party in Kansas City, Mo. (see p. 18) and next day caught a train for Manhattan. The celebration there was even bigger-an over-all exhibition of his paintings from 1908 to 1939. His first one-man Manhattan show in seven years, it was installed in a blaze of light at the opening of a new Fifth Avenue gallery by Associated American Artists (TIME...