Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will learn." Steffens, then 36, and already a crack reporter (New York Evening-Post), bought a ticket to Chicago. Before his U.S. travels were over, he had written The Shame of the Cities, a sizzling series of articles on nationwide municipal corruption. The series made Steffens famous and helped make McClure's the most influential publication...
...make a new start, Rivera went to Italy, studied the murals of Giotto, Uccello and Andrea del Castagno...
...that has been hung a long time, so you can smell the bouquet. Very enjoyable to the educated nose. But if you offer it to the workers they will throw the rotten duck out, unless they throw it in your face. Now . . . the kitchen of the high bourgeoisie will make the proletarian vomit, and the paintings of the high bourgeoisie will make him vomit too-though this is nothing against the duck, or against modern...
Joyful Reverence. Full of the idea of painting "for the millions," Rivera hastened home from Paris in 1921 and joined forces with two other revolutionaries who were to make Mexican art history: Siqueiros and José Clemente Orozco. Together they formed a government-backed syndicate of artists, published a manifesto announcing their intention "to socialize artistic expression." To the syndicate that meant ditching easel painting and going to work on walls-wherever they could find a big, challenging bare...
...Cornell. He spent three years, much of it living with interns, on his first play, Men in White ("That was a longie"). It won the 1933 Pulitzer Prize. Then, in the same blend of melodrama and social conscience, came Dead End (1935), Ten Million Ghosts (1936), The World We Make...