Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marsh, most modern art is "phony sub-primitivism. Critics may not know what's wrong with Picasso, but any layman can tell you. The question is, what does it mean?" Questioned as to the meaning of his own work, Marsh says with a faintly puzzled air that it means what it describes-New York. "This is a new city, wide-open to an artist. It offers itself...
...That was a mean job, watching flocks by night. Common sense calls it low-down work and the men who do it are regarded as trash. But. . . an angel came and made them apostles, prophets and children...
Prom King Politics. Plainly, Wisconsin 1948 is a transitional generation, half in and half over the G.I. era. "Politics" to many a Wisconsin student is once more coming to mean the election of Junior Prom King, instead of Harry Truman. Before the November elections, Bob LaFollette, 22-year-old grandson of "Old Bob," made speeches for MacArthur; there were about a dozen avowed campus Marxists, and even one Dixiecrat. A Daily Cardinal poll showed students about evenly split between Truman and Dewey; they were also vaguely internationalist, and convinced that Russia would have to be stopped. The Cardinal, though, seemed...
This did not mean, he warned, that deflation was ahead. While admitting that the postwar backlog of demand for many items had just about run out, Snyder thought that severe shortages in steel and steel products plus a demand for new products would probably take up the slack that was appearing. The economy, said he, showed "encouraging signs of stability in the vicinity of the present high levels...
...survey of 310 representative banks, A.B.A. had found that borrowers were becoming slower in their payments, working capital was being absorbed by rising inventories, and demand for loans was dropping. The bankers concluded that the U.S. "may be at an economic crossroads. A turn one way can mean a continued inflationary spiral, a turn the other way can bring a recession...