Word: projective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bank of the placid Moskva, close to the Kremlin, a prodigious peacetime project was resumed. The project: the erection of the world's mightiest monument, the Palace of the Soviets, dedicated to Soviet Russia's founding father, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin...
Booth Tarkington, 75-year-old, two-time Pulitzer Prizewinning novelist and connoisseur of art, who summers at Kennebunkport, Me., attacked the Kennebunkport post office mural, an old WPA project depicting bulgy bathers on a beach. Author Tarkington regarded the work as "painful to Kennebunkport's old timers. Why, Kennebunkport doesn't even have a bathing beach...
...their first fiscal year, the 100-odd grateful Rio tenants had confirmed the gloomiest predictions, lost $25,712 reviving the run-down land. In February 1943, FSA Assistant Regional Director W. A. Canon, who had envisioned the project and almost singlehandedly set it going, called in big, capable FSAman Sam D. Tayloe to manage the farms. Tayloe quit FSA to take the job. Almost immediately, things began to improve...
Every week since October has been a special United Nations week in Worcester. WTAG decided that its special job should be to educate its listeners about the United Nations. Its resulting Worcester & the World project, under Program Chief David H. Harris, has attempted just that...
Chicago, which saw some 50 performances of Frankie and Johnnie as a WPA Federal Theater project, had pronounced it a "wow" and as "native as a ballgame." Eastern balletomanes, seeing it for the first time last week, plunged into heated controversy about the strutting, nonclassical acrobatics and gun-toting melodrama. Critics couldn't agree on whether it was "good, lusty folklore" or merely a "dirty show...