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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Michigan's Representative George Dondero thought he knew the answer to his own question, supplied it from the floor of the House last week. Modern art, he thinks, is not a matter of evolution (as Philosopher Ortega y Gasset contends-TIME, Aug. 22), but of revolution; in short, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Red Plot? | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

On that trip Beebe had a helper. Harvardman Otis Barton, who designed and built the Bathysphere, took notes and pictures while Beebe was reporting to the surface over special telephone equipment. Last week after an interim career making movies in Panama, the Bahamas and Australia, plus combat photography in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Deep Dip | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

As Roseanna opens, all is quiet on the Hatfield-McCoy front. Over in West Virginia, the hot-tempered, hard-drinking Hatfields are helling about after bear and possum in their own backyard. On the Kentucky side of the Big Sandy River, the hard-working McCoys are peaceably tending their taters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 29, 1949 | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

Fate of the Essex. There was a first draft of the book, but Melville was dissatisfied with it by the time it was finished. By then he had struck up an acquaintance with Nathaniel Hawthorne, and had been reading Hawthorne's Mosses from an Old Manse. Melville was so...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Track of the White Whale | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

Here was a problem to intrigue the metaphysical-minded Melville: Was the white whale an agent of nature repelling man's attacks? Or was he perhaps a symbol of man's own rebellious instincts? Melville hardly cared. For him the whale came to represent whatever it is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Track of the White Whale | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

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