Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There can be no denial of the success of Fuller's campaign. The public trembles at the thought of their future. Successive encounters with the glants from Saint Lawrence and Hampden-Sidney (enrollment 350) are expected to permanently cripple the Indian "midgets...
...being taken for granted. Gallery-goers find it hard to realize that his atmospheric, human scenes of pre-War-I Manhattan were damned as paintings of "The Ashcan School" when his group of realists held their first show in 1908. Last week he summed himself up: "I never thought of one of my good pictures as art while painting it. Whether it was art or not, it was what I wanted to do. . . . I am grateful to have lived this long and look forward to more years of hard work. I am just a student, chewing on a bone...
...famed U. S. newspaper correspondent was in Poland when the War began. Some of them had stayed in London and Paris, waiting for another Munich. Some who had thought that Poland would hold out for weeks or months were caught napping. Others had looked for a big battle on the Western Front when Polish fighting bogged down in mud that never came. One & all, they cooled their heels last week, copied official hand-outs from the Ministry of Information in London, drank pernods at the bar of the Hotel Lancaster in Paris, while youngsters who had never seen...
...unsavory incidents, but mainly because the prosperity of the 20s did not last forever. It was tacitly assumed that businessmen as a group were reactionary. But neither the few who spoke for business nor the many who spoke against it had much if any evidence of what businessmen really thought. Recently FORTUNE decided to find...
...plays of Shakespeare had not been easy to write," says Mark Van Doren, "they would have been impossible. . . . The great and central virtue of Shakespeare was not achieved by taking thought, for thought cannot create a world." Having thus dismissed the academic worry about "problems" he goes on to dismiss the word "Elizabethan," never uses either word again. In 34 brief chapters (average length: 10 pages) he describes with citations, line by telling line, the world of imagination created in each of the plays...