Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soft-spoken Grant Wood? Like Benton, Grant Wood studied in France, turned out his share of Blue Vase, Sorrento, House in Montmartre, Breton Market. But in 1929 he radically changed his style. From his palette issued a series of rolling, tree-dotted Iowa fields done in a flat, smooth manner. His landscape of West Branch, Iowa (FORTUNE, Aug. 1932) got the birthplace of Herbert Hoover almost as much public attention as the infrequent visits of that President. Wood's credo: U. S. art suffers from a "Colonial attitude" to Europe, a feeling of cultural dependence upon the older continent...
...objecting to his photographic technique, most critics allow Sheeler a top place among U. S. painters of industrial scenes. Michigan's nearest approach to catching the U. S. scene in paint is a Flint school of artists led by Jaroslav Brozik which applies to industrial themes an impressionistic manner...
...Pope gave permission to do so in his 1930 Encyclical on Marriage, Casti Connubii. Said he: "Nor are those considered as acting against nature who in their married life use their right in the proper manner, although on account of natural reasons of time or of certain defects, new life cannot be brought forth...
...banquet was stuffingly delicious, the histrionics were funny to the serious and hilarious to those in the mood, the dance was long, loud and swell, the company brilliant, comely and congenial in the Dunster manner. Although the less progressive Dunsterites had feared that the mixture of Christmas party (heretofore utterly a stag affair) and dance might not set too well even the most misogynistic were forced to admit that Henry Dunster's House had a roaring fine party Wednesday night...
...views unadulterated by American cutting or editing. In view of the distortion of German news by most newspapers and periodicals in this country this innovation should give readers an opportunity to pass some judgment on the leaders of the Nazi regime from their own statements presented in an unprejudiced manner without any attempt being made to influence the reader...