Word: rurality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third of the rural population has malaria, a fifth hookworm. In Rio and São Paulo the prevalence of syphilis and tuberculosis is even higher...
Perelman was a pioneer in the Broadway-to-Bucks-County rush which has filled the county's farmhouses with highbrow yeomen, including Moss Hart, Dorothy Parker and Pearl Buck. Acres and Pains, made up of 21 pieces originally published in magazines, deals sharply with such rural hazards as weekend guests, domestic animals, tractors and antiques ("Is anybody around here looking for a bargain in an Early Pennsylvania washstand? . . . Genuine pumpkin pine, with ball-and-claw feet, and a small smear of blood where I tripped over it last night in the dark"). Unlike some other city farmers, Perelman...
Puckish John Knewstub Rothenstein, the Tate's present director, is a man given to pastel-colored shirts and the adjective "delicious." He is all-out for modern art. During the war, Rothenstein packed most of the Tate's treasures off to rural hiding places, then busied himself with the acquisition of over 600 new works, including some by British Modernists Graham Sutherland, Henry Moore, John Piper. The gallery was bombed (only six of its 34 rooms are usable now), but attendance has climbed to more than double prewar. Rothenstein realizes that much of what he buys will soon...
...past years, students at Jacob's Pillow had rubbed elbows in an intimate rural way (over dishes and housework) with such greats of the dance as Martha Graham, Alexandra Danilova, Founder Ted Shawn. This year they got a close-up look at another of the foremost U.S. dancers and teachers. Charles Weidman's name was not so well known to the U.S. as some with less talent. Sol Hurok had never ballyhooed him-but the experts will let him dance in their all-America team any time...
...evil-smelling darkness of the Victory Theater on Washington Street, a well-balanced program is being shown these days. While one picture demonstrates graphically the dangers of Ceylon rural life, the other is equally disenchanting about our own urban civilization. But for the man who does not give a hang for the sociological view, and merely wants to be entertained, both features are the nuts...