Word: muralitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Three-chinned Diego Rivera and one-handed José Clemente Orozco, famed Mexican mural painters, have had years of hot personal differences. Last month Rivera walked into Orozco's studio to ask for a few pointers on fresco technique. Last week, in a lecture to an audience which included Orozco, Rivera called him the greatest living artist in their field...
...familiar America-Firstish faces were there in the Mural Room of Chicago's Hotel Morrison: the furtive, snickering little women who pass around anti-Semitic postcards; the Coughlinites; the pinch-lipped, waspish old couples with gleaming eyes; the Patrick Henry Forumites; the overcorseted We the Mothers; the fanatical ragtag & bobtail of a 100% star-spangled movement...
...GOPster as libelous), the meeting was engineered by smooth, stocky Chicago lawyer William J. Grace, chairman of an organization now called the Citizens' U.S.A. Committee (formerly the Citizens' Keep America Out of War Committee). But Illinois' top-drawer Republicans, although mainly anti-Willkie, shunned the Mural Room, looked prim and pained. The Great Revival was off to a weak start...
Cancelling the regular schedule which included Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, etc., the change in athletic policy will restrict the Crimson eleven to nothing more than an all-star intra-mural squad that will meet similar outfits from nearby institutions on a very informal basis...
...attempt to inject some spirit into the members of the Naval R.O.T.C., and also to help break up the monotony of their calisthenics. Chief Petty Officer Frank Patrick, head of Navy Sci athletics, has organized four basketball teams among his men and entered them in an intra-mural league which also includes the eight House teams...