Word: plowman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...court which "Zeus" Hughes molded into a harddriving, efficient agency of government, Justice Butler was two invaluable things-a workhorse and a judicial craftsman. All jobs need professionals, plowmen who can drive their furrow in hard ground, and cut that furrow straight, deep and clean. Such a hard-working plowman was Pierce Butler, carrying the burden and heat of the day for his conservative colleagues, while Justice Van Devanter smiled blandly, Justice Sutherland worked sporadically, and Justice McReynolds contented himself with indignant snorts...
...points. To illustrate Point Il, "Liberation of our territory from foreign military forces which have invaded it," the artist combined a silhouette map of Spain with a stormy night cloud, set against it a blasted tree gripping Spanish ground with talons, showed bayonets advancing in daylight over a peaceful plowman to drive away Death (see cut}. For Point VIII, "Through agrarian reform to liquidate the old semifeudal aristocratic estates," Artist Renau produced his most effective picture: a smiling, stubble-faced farmer holding a rustic pitchfork, with furrows ribboning behind toward a village and three bulls stylized with long morning...
Speaking on a Republican National Committee radio broadcast, Plowman Peek declared he had decided to support Nominee Landon because "the Republican platform promises three things of paramount importance to agriculture...
...which first appeared in the "Criterion"--like Mr. Ezra Pound, Mr. Dawson finds the essence of Romanticism, without XIXth century secretions, in the Provencel literary tradition, when literature and religion co-operated and collaborated, and the present dualism was yet unknown; the third part is a paper on "Piers Plowman." There is a central unity, however, for Mr. Dawson's concern throughout is with the impact of religion on culture, insofar as it is ever possible wholly to dissociate the two. In the Middle Ages, especially in the XIIIth century, Christianity attained its cultural heights: "Europe has seen no greater...
...grave defect of the book--though the paper on "Piers Plowman" somewhat mitigates it--is Mr. Dawson's failure to relate the break-up of the mediaeval synthesis to social phenomena like the decline of feudalism, that all-embracing system of "organized anarchy," as Professor Haskins once called it. And surely the XIVth century hurly-burly can be shown to be related to the Reformation by economic ties; it is certainly significant that the English schism, in its early stages, was less doctrinal than political, and was anyhow not altogether to be attributed to the amorous ways of Henry VIII...