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Most of Chicago's subway schemes have proposed leveling the elevated loop and the uneven scale of property values it sustains. Successfully opposing such plans have been the real-estate and business interests entrenched inside the "Loop." But last week a plan that contained no threat to the "Loop" was on its way to fulfillment. Signed by President Roosevelt was a PWA allotment of 18 million lend-spend dollars, representing 45% of the cost of a $40,000,000 7.6-mile subway system which Chicago must start building before January 1, and must have substantially completed by June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Chicago Underground | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

...Gloucester, Mass., where for 60 years artists have been painting in remodeled fish houses on Rock Neck Avenue, two rival groups sponsored exhibitions, the Society of Artists holding a spirited, uneven, no-jury show on the second floor of a store building, featuring cheerful pieces by young, rebellious Lawrence Beall Smith and Umberto Romano; the North Shore Art Association, twice as big, and more than twice as dignified, giving its 16th annual show in which Gloucester scenes, fishermen and sailing craft predominated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Summer Shows | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

...Hopper, Reginald Marsh, Thomas Benton, Charles Sheeler, John Steuart Curry, Peggy Bacon, left English critics with their bowlers clamped firmly on their heads. Declaring that half the paintings might have been done "by devoted but not very skilful admirers of contemporary French art," critics found the remainder honest but uneven, likened their effect to the blare of trombones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Americans Abroad | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

...first to link escapists and colonizers, Author Millin pounds out the link with an uncommonly honest and brilliant, if uneven, vigor; almost, as in her other eleven novels (God's Stepchildren, et al.), writes a first-rate book. Mainly she fails through too much haste. (Her biographies -Cecil Rhodes, General Smuts-took a whole year to write. Her novels get themselves written in a month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Neurotic Imperialist | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...succeeded in writing a half-dozen books which stand out for their acute observations of nature, their sensitive prose, their blend of pessimism and pagan delight in the "rabble senses." The most polished of the prolific Powys brothers (John Cowper Powys, T. F. Powys), Llewelyn is also the most uneven. But even cautious critics rank three of his ten books-Ebony and Ivory, Skin for Skin, The Cradle of God-among the minor English classics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Joyful Pessimist | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

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