Word: movement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pisani were an Italian family of sculptors and architects in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, whose activities were confered in Pisa. They were influential in the renaissance of Italian sculpture, developing and spreading the new movement to many parts of Italy...
...Significance. Captious critics have called George Bellows an illustrator rather than an artist. This is because the most important qualities in his work are a sense of the dramatic and an ability to make the movement of his figures so intense that it is almost impossible to realize that they are, actually, stationary. Like all other artists, he is an illustrator of life; like no other artist he has found the themes for his illustrations in the strident banalities of U.S. civilization. Perhaps the only important U. S. artist who never crossed the geographical boundary of his country, he advanced...
...American Chemical Society is very strongly opposed to the creation of any international centre for the control of chemistry, whether it be located in France or elsewhere." The Department of State answered that already, in August 1926, it had declined the French government's invitation to join the movement...
Stocks. There is much money available at 3½%. It is being used to finance the movement of crops and to buy bonds and is not finding its way into the stock market. Again prices of stocks were beaten down to lower levels in trading on the exchange last week. General Motors had announced record earnings. Yet this major stock closed last week's sessions at a decline of 14% points from its high for the year. Slumped also these leading issues: U. S. Steel, General Electric, Houston...
...Croy is correct in accrediting such views to these men, the movement --for such it must then be called--is directly flying in the face of an opposite one in Europe. There the young thinkers of the universities are said to have abandoned the thoughts of the social philosophers for a complete and blind surrender to faith. Whether the Americans are one step ahead or behind remains where all decisions of this kind have remained--with the individual. At least Mr. Croy avoids dogmatism in his own code, a novelty in a day when inventors and manufacturers are become...