Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Unscheduled, but no surprise, was the resignation last week of Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. as Assistant Secretary of State. In his memorandum to the Monopoly Investigation Committee last fortnight, Mr. Berle had made plain what was no secret: that, as one of the earliest Brain Trusters, he does not see eye to eye with some of the President's present economic advisers. The parting, however, was highly amicable. Mr. Berle cited his understanding with the President that when "certain work was got forward" he might go home. Last week's report was that this "certain work...
...senseless than the Big Apple, but suffering from the same fault as the out-of-date Carioca and Continental : it looks too hard for the general public and too easy for Astaire and Rogers. Astaire at last drops all pretense of being a psychiatrist and hypnotizes Ginger by the plain old-fashioned method of waggling his fingers; whereupon they dance once more and everything turns out all right...
Like Bellows in Mouquin's, the typical U. S. professional in the fine arts for many years worked in the world but was not of it. He kept his methods to himself; when plain people noticed him at all they suspected him; few people had a chance to discover his dignity, and when discovered it was usually misinterpreted. Much has happened in the last few years to alter this national condition...
Back of the whole set-up was a belief that the more plain workmanship with canvas, wood, stone, metals, textiles, clay and color goes on in a country, the finer fine arts it may produce. Holger Cahill is fond of using a fact of nature to illustrate his theory of national art: "You don't often find mountains where there is no plateau." Hostile critics have rejoined that plateaus and genuine art movements alike are beyond the power of governments to create. But even such critics admit that the Federal Art Project has gone about...
...Artists' wages, determined by the cost of living in each locality and by union rates, have varied from $103 per month in Manhattan to $39 per month in Alabama, Mississippi and Florida. Top wage is now $98 per month, bottom wage, $45. By selecting plain, large quarters for rental, by mimeographing catalogues, manuals and books instead of printing them, and in general by going easy on creature comforts, the Project has not only saved money but has avoided artiness so completely that its various units in operation resemble sober workmen's guilds...