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Romer on anatomy is considered quaint and, in 1941-42, difficult to follow, due to sacrificing organization to speed in cutting a full year course down to a half. Redfield on physiology is comfortably slow and a "swell fellow" and the course is well worth taking after anatomy...
Probably the only new tires the U.S. would see in the next year or two would be on the sleek new cars of Latin tourists, inspecting the quaint, little-traveled byways...
...fellow who was advocating isolation or the New Deal or whatever we were opposed to had the same interest in the future of the country and the betterment of the people as we had. The oratorical extravagances that became the cliches of politics indicated much more than a quaint Americanism. They indicate a fundamental distrust that strikes at the very base of our democratic principles. In the twenty years before this war it might well be said that we lost the driving force that bound us together as a nation during the more illustrious periods of our history...
...years ago. In the years since his death, collectors have rummaged through attics, farmhouses, junk shops, looking for work of other self-taught geniuses. For amateur artists (sometimes called "self-taught," "primitives," "popular painters"), working without benefit of formal art-school rules, often, like untrained folk musicians, create quaint pictorial myths that outshine the work of educated artists. Inexpert at perspective and anatomy, they paint awkward, stiff figures, flat shadowless backgrounds. But although they have the technique of children they have the patience of adults, so that their laborious work has the charm of finely detailed craftsmanship...
While Chicagoans last week gaped with sincere admiration at Painter Rousseau's creations, Manhattan gallery-goers did their best to find a U.S. Rousseau among their crop of self-taught U.S. artists. And though they failed, they found that U.S. primitives had turned out some quaint and naively appealing canvases. Of the 30 U.S. primitive artists selected by Collector Janis to be shown at the Marie Harriman Gallery the best...