Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nationalists. Kootz, who once cracked in the New York Times that "Cézanne made an apple important; Benton ... a lynching trivial," makes another attack on Thomas Hart Benton and his fellow U.S. nationalists. Says Kootz: "Benton and Wood, Curry and Marsh . . . went American so raucously, so insistently, that they provided and inspired an enormous flood of dull, routine anecdotes. . . . Each of the nationalist lads has his own little counter to set up trade. From it he dispenses post cards, heavy with facts, guaranteed to counteract any itch that jeopardizes a continued comfort...
...painters (of whom William Gropper is best known), Kootz says: "Gropper, for instance, has never been able to invent a plastic language of his own. . . . The plain fact of the matter is that the radical pattern of this school is as dull esthetically as the reactionary pattern of the nationalist school. Both schools trade in local incidents, the class-struggle boys bellyaching that nothing is good enough, the nationalists insisting that it was good enough for Pop and it is good enough for them. . . . Slice it any way you want and it still comes out a literary tract...
...broad fields of national and international policy, no one could be sure what his opinions are. He is of course opposed to the New Deal. On foreign relations, he apparently regards himself as a "nationalist," but not an isolationist. "Nationalism" might mean world cooperation based on legitimate self-interest-or it might mean letting the rest of the world go hang...
Japan Did It. After the bloody suppression by the British of Burmese nationalist demonstrations in 1938 and 1939, Japanese agents found little difficulty in organizing their own Burmese Nationalist Revolutionary Party. They also fostered an underground Burma Independence Army and acquired the support of Dr. Ba Maw, a former Premier whom the British once imprisoned. Thirty-two nationalists were smuggled to Japan, there trained as pro-Japanese agitators. Inept British administrators did nothing effective to offset these preparations. "Meanwhile," wrote Thien Pe, "British imperialism was fighting on three fronts in Burma. It justly hated the pro-Jap elements. It openly...
...names at the Globe are much nicer, but the show isn't too much better than the Old Howard. A person called Noma-Ma-Ha-Ja, an Indian Nationalist we suspect, exposes herself judiciously along with the 30 Globettes...