Word: mysticism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Carroll County, Ind. Mr. Wickard started in a minor administrative job, moved up until last year he became Under Secretary of Agriculture. Although he seldom got public credit, his was the mind behind many of the New Deal's agricultural programs. If any man did, he understood the mystic mathematics of agriculture. Few weeks ago he impressed his associates by forecasting the 1940 corn yield, hitting remarkably close to the later official estimate (2,415,988,000 bu.). This week Claude Wickard got another promotion. Henry Wallace resigned to campaign for the Vice-Presidency; Claude Wickard was nominated...
...artists who make Manhattan the biggest U. S. art centre, those who can afford it, depart in summer to rural resorts from Maine to Virginia. Among their most favored summer art colonies are such New England towns as Silvermine, Lyme, Newport, Provincetown, Rockport. Typical is the little town of Mystic, Conn, (east of New London) which opened its 15th annual exhibition last week...
...colony at Mystic is Robert Brackman, 41, outspoken foe of "modern" art, a National Academy member, who is well off with 53 summer students, gets fat prices for his female nudes, and in his portrait work can afford to turn down women, paint only men whose faces he admires. It includes Guy Pene du Bois whose fame dates back to pre-War I days when he, Davies, Bellows, Luks, Henri were putting modern U. S. painting on the map. Another member is young, happy-go-lucky Galed Gesner (usually willing to let a picture go for the price...
There are no WPA artists in Mystic and Willkie-buttoned painters frown on the New Deal for fostering a group which leads the public to believe that modern art is radical. Mystic boosters think the sun, the sea, fresh air and green trees would get a WPA city artist back to "picture principles," away from propaganda, but would hate to see him transplanted at the taxpayers' expense. They know about expense - have an annual $2,400 mortgage fee to pay on their $35,000 gallery...
Actually Henry Agard Wallace is not so much a dirt farmer as a cloud mystic. He is also one of the few mystics who turn their oddities to practical account. He once subsisted for five days on cottonseed meal, soybean oil and cauliflower-not in the interest of dietary flagellation, but in a quest for cheap foods. He has passed many a night hour lying on the ground, looking at the stars. Purpose: to check a complex theory about the relation of the heavenly bodies to weather cycles. He is equally fond of integral calculus and boomerang throwing. Both have...