Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Athens, Greece. He has given a home site to the United Nations, trained most of China's doctors, directed the efforts of American mission aries abroad, built Manhattan's breathtaking Rockefeller Center, and in general mobilized the best talent he could find to clear myriad paths toward progress...
Under a governmental austerity ruling that cut back their budget 30%, officials of Venice's famed International Festival of Contemporary Music had canceled the prestigious operatic premiéres of earlier years (e.g., Stravinsky's own 1951 Rake's Progress, Britten's 1954 Turn of the Screw, Prokofiev's 1955 Flaming Angel), pinned all their hopes and a large part of their remaining budget on the world premiére of Stravinsky's Canticum Sacrum ad Honorem Sancti Marci Nominis (Canticle to Honor the Name of St. Mark...
...resulting "Americans in Europe" is not only a cross section of younger talents but a progress report on where U.S. painters are trending. Confirming the southward migration of painters, Mrs. Halpert found Rome bursting with energy and independence, with Americans leading the way. Among the canvases she picked up are a boldly painted Galleria, Naples by Manhattan-born Al Blaustein, 32, and a startling Crucifixion by Abbey Scholarship Winner Thomas H. Dehill Jr., 31, of Cambridge. In Paris Mrs. Halpert found young Americans hemmed in by high costs and an abstractionist syndrome, but she spotted some work she liked, including...
...SOUTH: FURY & PROGRESS...
...solution. The real answer is for Old King Cotton to grow up to the new U.S. industrial revolution. With mechanized farming methods, the U.S. currently produces more cotton on 17 million acres than it did on 36 million acres in 1930. Yet efficient growers cannot take advantage of their progress because cotton has been grown under an uneconomically high. Government-supported price system favoring the small marginal farmer. Cotton economists are convinced that the marginal farmer must get out of cotton to make way for the big mechanized producer, who can farm vast tracts of land on the Texas plains...