Word: swirling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...list. Some have begun to paint ostentatiously pretty pictures to atone for past sins, others are allowed, like Karl Hofer, to paint as they please but not to exhibit in Germany. Being a work of art, Hofer's close-knit painting of two defenseless figures in an arbitrary swirl of blue drapery had more than one meaning, but it might certainly refer to the ill wind faced by German artists...
...Symphony Hall under the uncivilized spell of Benny Goodman's baton and marvels that a building can be so versatile in its atmosphere. He remembers a superb woman violin soloist of former years who later married a popular Boston orchestra leader, and while the purples and reds of Ravel swirl from the orchestra, he wonders how in the world the management reaches those chandeliers to change the bulbs. He sees disillusioned Seniors relaxing momentarily before their leap at the Divisional hurdles, he sees . . . Ah! The intermission...
...with action rather than ideas, he has rarely decided on tomorrow's problems today. But John L. Lewis, having cut himself adrift from old-line organized labor and far offshore from the President on whose election he spent half a million, now revolves in the centre of a swirl of social forces that cannot go on swirling indefinitely. If he wants to dominate these forces, he must soon decide not only for what ends, but also how they are to be achieved...
...Fate Andre Malraux told the fearful story of a few days in Shanghai that shook the Eastern world-the period in the fall of 1927 when Chiang Kai-shek broke with his Communist allies and the Chinese revolution ended in a swirl of arrests, assassinations, executions, torture. Malraux's account was fiction, but to Occidental readers it seemed far more real than the wild and contradictory newspaper reports of what happened to the remnants of the Chinese Communists...
...cynicism and his occasional tossing over of an economics teacher to the Red-seeing rage of the populace, he reveals that he has built up a dike by means of most of the influential newspapers of the country against war propaganda from either side. In a great swirl of mixed emotions, including revived love for Sara and conviction that the people are sick of neutrality, he lets down the dike, first playing up the story of the French sinking of an American ship carrying contraband. When war begins to loom, the credit of the Garrison business is restored, and factory...