Word: urbanizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...itch for the book was most notable among urban intellectuals and college students. (Wellesley girls were told at the campus bookshop that they could not buy a copy unless they came back with a written O.K. from a professor. None came back.) But there were plenty of other customers. In Kansas City, a grain merchant bought a copy for his mistress, wistfully wrote on the flyleaf: "I hope this will help you to understand me better." In Miami Beach, where no cabana was considered properly furnished without "the report," one playboy bought 50 copies and sent them...
Born 65 years ago in Nyack, N.Y., Hopper has been following the painter's road for nearly half a century. He was lucky enough to study with Robert Henri, whose "Ashcan School" of urban realism neatly fitted his own natural bent, and he later made three trips to Paris (where he imitated the impressionists but made no contact with young moderns like Picasso). For a long time Hopper's road was a rocky one. He sold only two paintings in 23 years, supported himself by doing commercial illustrations, which he hated. Says Hopper: "I was a rotten illustrator...
...French Communist Party is on the skids. Numerically, that is; because it becomes all the more dangerous as it tends to be reduced to its hard core. But political trends in France affect the peasants about six months after they have influenced urban areas. The Communist slump is only now beginning to touch the peasant vote...
...Communist line to urban workers is relatively honest; it calls for more production. There is, however, a fundamentally revolting dishonesty about Communist propaganda in the countryside. It encourages the black market, incites farmers to demand highest possible prices for their goods, poisons peasant minds with insidious and repeated suggestions that townspeople are having a high old time at their expense...
...quit selling, the invisible Miss Shore tells and sings quite a pleasant little yarn about one Bongo (original story by Nobel Prizewinner Sinclair Lewis). Bongo is a small circus bear who answers the call of the wild on his unicycle, finds that he is a bit soft and urban for life in the raw, falls for a sexy little taupe she-bear, and engages a gigantic rival in slapstick battle...