Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...come in for more than their share of epithets. "Useless," "extravagant," and myriads of other Republican, battle cries are heard. 210 Harvard Faculty members have risen in protest against this attack, vehemently defending Federal Arts on the ground that "a democratic government can assure its citizens a freedom of life, of enterprise, and of access to the arts of civilization such as no other government can or will assure them." They protest against the stifling of this "freedom of access" by distorted Congressional "economy...
...dollars out of those few well-filled pocket-books. For without those dollars, the Arts cannot live. Partly to break those shackles which link the Arts so irretrievably with private enterprise, the Administration at Washington inaugurated the Federal Arts projects. By subsidizing these projects, the Government has tried to life the Arts above the dictates and limits of a limited public and pass them on to the great majority of citizens who could not otherwise enjoy them. No one can deny that in this attempt, the Administration has made mistakes, has been guilty of extravagance and short-sightedness. No such...
From Homer on, hardly a serious poet has been without a guardian conscience which he called his Muse. To the Greek poets, the Muses were goddesses who led a life apart from the bullheaded and goatish gods but were, like them, bland absentees. After paganism, when Christianity started trying to hatch out a more personal and better world, the Muse turned from goddess to angel-like Dante's Beatrice, who spoke to him from heaven. But with the Renaissance, poets found their angels nearer home and less angelic: in Elizabethan times, on the streets and in the Court...
...theme of Robert Lee Frost's life is a conflict between staying and going. Staying, for him, has meant standing by a poetic conscience such as has been given to few American poets-in complete disregard of any lesser audience. Going has meant playing the artist more than the man-and winning a public success which he never intended and partly distrusts. Frost did most of his staying in his first three books (A Boy's Will, North of Boston, Mountain Interval)-and his later books contain many poems that testify to his ability to stay...
...surest defense of democratic institutions is the conviction of the citizens that life in a democracy is preferable to life under any other form of government," the petition concludes...