Word: progress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...solution did not lie in the partisans' theory that "all good flows from their own party and all political evil from the other." Said Earl Warren: "The vast majority of Americans know . . . that good Americans are to be found in both parties. They realize that there are progressives and conservatives in the ranks of both. They know that party affiliation does not change human instincts or affect loyalty to country ... No party has a patent on progress, a copyright on governmental principles or a proprietary interest in the advances made in former days...
...Stages of Progress. Nonetheless, Matisse will spend months or even a year of intermittent work on the same picture before deciding he "can go no further" with it. When something seems wrong about a painting, he starts all over again...
Included in the film are photographs of Matisse's The Peasant Blouse, made at 15 stages of progress over a period of five months. The painting began with a reasonably naturalistic and (for Matisse) timid sketch from a model. Every subsequent stage looks as complete as the final one, though not even the last version seems "finished"-a Matisse seldom does. In spite of the drastic changes Matisse made as he went along, every version brought his original conception more boldly into focus. His admirers might have accepted any of the early versions as a masterpiece, but not Matisse...
Welles finds Soviet Russia "the most wasteful form of society in human history." Economic progress has been made only at staggering cost-including some 15 million lives. The Kremlin, having an absolute monopoly on all business, fixes absurdly low prices on the goods it buys, absurdly high ones on the goods it sells. Thus Russia employs a sort of perverted capitalism-"capitalism gone totalitarian . . . more ruthless than that of any American robber baron...
...right to expect." He also decides, after a quick look around Paris, that "if I lived in France, I don't quite see how I could help being a Communist." But he glibly disavows Communism in the U.S. on the grounds that "it has made hardly any progress." (His compromise is the shrill and not unexpected determination "to vote for Wallace, even if I had to write in his name on the ballot.") And with the kind of disingenuousness that would have appalled another of his heroes, Psychologist William James, Author Matthiessen insists that he cannot become a Marxist...