Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week when his press conference assembled, Franklin Roosevelt brushing aside other subjects, picked up a typewritten sheet and, in cold accents so deliberate that reporters could take it down verbatim, he read: "The news of the past few days from Germany has deeply shocked public opinion in the United States. Such news from any part of the world would inevitably produce a similar profound reaction among American people in every part of the nation...
...takes up Herbert Read, the English enthusiast, on an incautious statement that "academic'' art began in the 14th Century with "the desire to reproduce in some way exactly what the eye sees." Analyst Herter has an easy time proving that this was no more true of the 14th than of the ist Century, that great artists never wanted to be copyists of nature, but were imaginative and expressive, that...
...Read's false definition leads to a false antithesis: resentational"' art between and traditional as nontraditional "rep as ''non-representational" art. Analyst Her ter thinks this is the root of modern confusion...
...weekdays he is always up before 8, listens first to a typed summary of news from his own papers read by his secretary. Breakfast and lunch are scanty...
...admiration of some more conventional publishing practices (he makes his employes read and, where possible, imitate TIME), Lord Beaverbrook chooses his own methods. Last year they were good enough to net his papers $3,750,000. But the Express puts extra nest eggs away every year in a basket called the "Secret Reserve." This now totals about $3,750,000, and will furnish ammunition for any new circulation...