Word: rigidities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the depression, some 1,000 WPA artists helped ferret the dusty, peeling masterpieces from Shaker barns, Manhattan antique shops, Southern California missions and New England historical societies, and sketched them according to rigid specifications...
Professor Northrop's analysis of Russia faces the fact of Communist success: of the deliberate, swift and powerful application of a philosophy, Marx's, in human history. The Marxian dialectic was too rigid for the facts. But at least "it was high time that economic and political theory . . . treated man as a creature with a body, having continuous energy requirements in the form of food to maintain even his human existence...
...more helpful than beating tom-toms-"reminiscent of the days of yellow fever and the shotgun quarantine of a century ago, when people were driven by blind fear, ignorance and superstition." Added Winslow: "There is no reason to believe that improved methods of sewage treatment and disposal, more rigid standards for the purification of water supplies, or the dusting of DDT over a city . . . will have any measurable effect on the incidence of infantile paralysis...
...difficult. You might find fault with Hindustan climatology, and carefully show the effects of the monsoon rain on the caloric intake of the Bengali peasant; there is some relation. Or you might find the Hindu religion, totalling 65 percent of the population, a hindrance to progress in its rigid caste definitions. Then, there are always the British, for it was through their policy of laissez-faire that little or no social advancement was achieved in India--or in any of their other colonies. But whatever the cause, the effect exists in lean and filthy reality...
Last year, New York's bargain-priced City Opera Company broke opera's rigid color line by presenting Todd Duncan of Porgy and Bess fame in Carmen and I Pagliacci (TIME, Oct. 8). and followed it this year with Negro Soprano Camilla Williams as Madame Butterfly. Says 32-year-old Ellabelle Davis: "I want to prove that a Negro artist doesn't have to stay in his own backyard. In a singer, it is the color of the voice and not of the face which matters. If I'm a success...