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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comical-looking tree porcupine, annoyed to find that he is standing on his tail, gravely tips himself over by pulling it out from underneath. Miniature anteaters cry when caught, curl up pathetically with face in paws, uncurl suddenly and nab your arm. Pea-size frogs croak like bullfrogs. One beetle is equipped with amber landing light. A bird sings sophisticated Gershwin melodies. Quanks, opossums, howler monkeys, capybara, sloths, tamarins, uropygi come in all sizes and shapes, display remarkably varied habits...
...one sense, misleading to attach a term like "Impressionism" to a definite chronological period; for despite the fact that many outstanding painters who lived during the middle of the last century were Impressionists, the term itself is primarily indicative of a method rather than a time in the history of painting. An Impressionistic painting is simply one in which bright, practically unfused colors are placed on the canvas in such a manner that the eye of the onlooker, rather than the brush of the artist, mixes the tones and gives them coherence. Perhaps an example would serve to illustrate...
...with a big stick is loose in America, but he is not walking quietly. Commissioned by Congress to investigate un-American activities, Dies has maneuvered himself into a one-man Supreme Court to judge what is and is not "American" under the Constitution. He has made "isms" almost as popular as sex-murders, and with the press caught by the scruff of its neck feeds it daily with red meat, mostly carrion...
...came two weeks ago when he published the membership of the League Against War and Fascism. Many names were merely on the mailing list. And although the great majority had no notion of the League's Communist affiliations, the complete list was published and the resulting hub-bub forced one school teacher to resign her job, and the rest to become targets of public suspicion...
...that Reds may tie-up the Chicago meat-packing industry over night, Dies clearly shows that un-Americanism has no limits but his own imagination. If workers in the stockyards come within the scope of the Committee, who may remain outside? Stockyards mean unions, and unions mean possible Communists. One Party man on the Harvard Faculty might soon provide an opening for the Dies wedge, one radical on a magazine grounds for an expose. Mr. Dies has become past-master of an art on which all strong-men depend. Rather than investigating, he is condemning. Newspapers have become...