Word: intention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tell briefly what the artist has conveyed and give Picasso the benefit of the doubt by saying that he intended it. We must not take "period" catchwords nor catalogue quotations as standards by which a painting can be judged. No work of art should be criticized according to the intent of the artist or on the basis of what other people may list as the artist's aims. We must see what has been accomplished, then rest happily...
Everybody was an Isolationist, regardless of party. The first New Dealers who went to Washington with Franklin Roosevelt were the New Isolationists, intent on a Brave New World. Raymond Moley, impatient with the fuddy-duddy, international-cooperation ideas of Tennessee's Cordell Hull, was horrified at the President's willingness to consult with Herbert Hoover's world-minded Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson. "Three thousand miles of good green water" on each coast seemed an ample guaranty of security forever...
Wildest man was hot-eyed Eugene ("Goober") Cox of Camilla, Ga., Tory hatchetman who dominates the House Rules Committee. Mr. Cox felt the fury that comes only to those who outsmart themselves. Intent on sabotaging the act, he rammed to the floor three sets of amendments sponsored by Graham Barden of New Bern, N. C., which would have exempted from the law practically all workers engaged in handling agricultural products-a prospect greatly pleasing to the strawberry producers and other farmers in Mr. Barden's district...
...became convinced that the New Deal was a gigantic political scheme to raze U. S. business to a dead level and debase the citizenry into a mass of ballot-casting serfs. In this conviction he is deadly serious. He regards the New Dealers as brigands & thugs, intent on robbing U. S. voters of their precious heritage of independence, on stifling free enterprise -a band of evil men masquerading as humanitarians. If by some evil chance Roosevelt should be re-elected in 1940, it will mean, he thinks, the end of the road, the death of the American way. When...
...melodrama to end all melodramas. Bank robbers, policemen, governors, midgets, and fascinatingly naive young ladies put themselves completely in the hands of the Tavern's unidentified guest, and he has them caper about in the fashion most likely to please his laughing audience--and with no other evident intent...