Word: stuarts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...usual, the mass of the exhibits were exercises in mediocrity. Such artists as Sculptor Concetta Scaravaglione, Muralist James Michael Newell, Stuart Davis, Marsden Hartley, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Aaron Bohrod and a sprinkling of others were able to produce work which seemed, by contrast, superb. An innovation was a new department entitled Index of American...
RICH LAND, POOR LAND-Stuart Chase -Whittlesey House...
Among U. S. economists. Stuart Chase has a reputation for being the best storyteller of the lot. Master of the art of leading audiences up the mountain, he has held out bold and attractive visions of happy economic futures, plausible-sounding and easily-attained, in most of the sprightly, bright, informal, argumentative volumes he has written in the past eleven years. Interspersing his books with anecdotes, personal reminiscences, moral tirades against waste, he has always discussed human problems as an economist, economic problems as an evangelist, political problems as an engineer, and philosophic problems as an irascible citizen who wants...
...book is somewhat like an old-fashioned geography turned upside down. Beginning with a discussion of rivers, plains, mountain ranges, rainfall, Stuart Chase proceeds to long, eloquent, angry lament on the squandering of native riches. Like the Whitman of a bankrupt country, he composes a great catalog of lost national wealth, including the buffalo, the passenger pigeon, eastern salmon, Pacific halibut, petroleum, timber, coal, the great auk, the Carolina parakeet, the drought-impoverished Dust Bowl. It is a disturbing account, calculated to make any responsible citizen treasure every green tree and each clear brook of his native land. The oyster...
...about costs he has shrewd answers, pointing out that Boulder Dam, by preventing a flood in 1935. saved the Imperial Valley at least $10,000,000. Holding that confidence is the basic need, he gives brief, effective accounts of projects in Sweden, Russia, England. Readers may be dazzled by Stuart Chase's bold vision of a happier future for their country but they are more likely to close Rich Land, Poor Land, with an uneasy feeling that Author Chase has pulled some white rabbits out of his statistics, that there must be greater obstacles to his program than...