Word: themes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...standingly self-reliant to be able and daring enough to sum up the lifelong teaching of "America's Greatest Philosopher" [John Dewey] with a statement at the same time devastating and so unobtrusive that most readers will pass it by: "exploring endless variations on a single theme: experience is the best teacher" [TIME...
...assemble a central gallery of decorative arts, smart San Franciscan Dorothy Liebes whizzed through Europe last summer visiting ateliers from dawn to dusk, enlisted such distinguished U. S. and European designers as Richard Neutra, Miës van der Rohe. A glowing fulfillment of the fair's "Pacific" theme were seven rooms of treasured art and craftsmanship hand-picked by Harvard's expert, twitchy-browed Orientalist Langdon Warner-from China, Japan, Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, Northwest America, South America, Central America...
...tone of these paragraphs, a kind of precocious, off-hand humming, has been imitated but never exactly reproduced by his successors. In 1937 he resigned from The New Yorker, after writing an inimitable farewell whose gamut ranged from a baritone sigh to a neurasthenic squeak. True to his theme (that the town was getting too much for him) he went off to live in the Maine countryside, at North Brooklin. Thence he contributes a monthly page (considerably duller than his New Yorker quiddities) to Harpers...
...itself, then riding at meridian over India. Its noonday rays impinged upon a photoelectric cell in Bombay, closing electric circuits by radio to start the carillon in the Tower of the Sun (400 ft., the fair's tallest). The carillon thereupon chimed out the fair's theme song, "The Bells of Treasure Island." Simultaneously on went the floodlights illuminating the Pageant of the Pacific, the Western Wonderland, the $50,000,000 Golden Gate International Exposition...
...Theme of the fair was developed by Publicist Clyde Milner Vandeburg, who helped promote the recent Dallas and San Diego fiestas. He turned a futuristic, local conception into a glamorous fairyland motif with the slogan: "See All the West in '39." That brought in all California's neighbor States. It wowed the transportation companies. And it was based on the sound perception that, whereas whole families stayed in town for weeks to see San Francisco's marvelous 1915 exposition, the average stay of today's streamlined travelers is two and one half days...