Word: urbans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of Darrow's cartoons stick to urban life and the middle class - which he treats with a ridicule heavily touched with fondness. Darrow's favorite subjects include the laughable aspects of human underwear, the drastic results of heavy, middle-aged drinking, and the leering onset of sex in very small Boy Scouts ("Would you like to come up and look at my merit badges?"). Sometimes Darrow strikes a fine fantastic strain of social criticism. There is, for example, his classic comment on the profit motive. An incredibly cushy plutocrat sits in deep torpor and upholstery and hands...
Brakeman Rodgers. For years hillbilly music remained a branch of folklore to most urban Americans - if they knew of it at all. But in 1921 a Kansas City-born folklore fan named Ralph Peer (then sales manager for Okeh Records) took a recording apparatus into the backwoods of Georgia and made some 300 disks. As an experiment, Okeh issued Peer's recordings, listing them in a special catalogue similar to those used for foreign language and "race" records. Within a few years Okeh's hillbilly list sold over a million disks-mostly below the Mason-Dixon line...
...this expert on manures, markets and mortgages who had the late Joseph Urban design a pioneering example of modern school architecture for the New School...
...Church, has not been in his native England since he left for Australia nine years ago. He brings back to Britain a knowledge and admiration for his Church's work in Australia and New Guinea. Wand's work down under took him not only to the big urban churches of the coastal cities but to isolated missions in the bush. He is especially enthusiastic about the Church's work in prewar New Guinea...
Nevertheless Davis believes that the future growth of Protestantism in Brazil lies in the vast untouched rural areas. But, says he, "the urban type of church" will fail there. In backwoods Brazil, says Davis, "people are . . . illiterate, in debt, undernourished, suffering from endemic and parasitic diseases, ignorant of the first principles of hygiene, sanitation, balanced diet, baby care. . . . Homes are bare hovels, crops are blighted by cutworms, and animals are decimated with tuberculosis. . . . When the theological seminaries of Brazil recognize this . . . by including in their curricula courses of rural economics, rural sociology, public health, diet and nutrition, youth activities, handcrafts...