Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rejected for its theory. There was no great rallying to the colors when the Independents, erstwhile Young Conservatives, announced a conservative platform two years ago and began a wavering venture into political life. Its subsequent activities have not been encouraging to those who night have supported the conservative idea if it had gone into action with any dignity...
James Morcom's idea of a Fourteenth Century castle looks like a clapboarded New England barn, and his revolving set often does not fit the scene, sequences. Millia Davenport's costumes never get beyond the phony chain-mail stage, and her costume for Hotspur's wife in the first act is one of the most atrocious bits of ugly design to appear for some time...
...Gallup questionees voted yes and 95% would not "go into another such war as 1917." The evidence therefore indicates that while practically nobody in the U. S. wants to fight, one man out of two thinks he will have to and one out of three has a good idea whom it will be against...
...which he produced editions of his own symbolic and prophetic writings from engraved plates, with his drawings as "illuminations." These books are famous. He was, then and later, thought crazy for lines like this: "Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires." After 100 years the idea became Freudian and hence something to think about...
Robert Hallowell was not a great artist, but he was a natural one. He did vivid, honest water colors and first-rate portraits, including one of Revolutionist John Reed, which now hangs in Harvard's Adams House. Brought up a Quaker, he put his idea of art in three words: "Isolate thy beauty." Widemouthed, humorous, stubborn and good company, he earned praise, honor from museums and meagre keep for his second wife and their baby until Depression hit the art market. From 1935 to 1937 he was an assistant on the Federal Art Project. After that obscurity and poverty...