Word: view
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brow view, most artists are screwy. In any view, two of the screwiest living artists are Painter Salvador Dali and Actor Harpo Marx. It is natural that two such surrealists should be fast friends. Early last year, while visiting in Hollywood, Dali sketched his friend Marx in pastels. Last week the odd result was hunting a buyer in San Francisco. Agent Julien Levy's price...
...York Herald Tribune Walter Lippmann, most statesmanly Jewish pundit in the U. S., took a sober and broad-gauge view of the situation. Said...
...Black Jacobins, by C. L. R. James (Dial Press, $3.75), is an impassioned account of Toussaint L'Ouverture and the Santo Domingo revolution, written from the Marxist point of view by a young British Negro. It bristles with harrowing atrocities, fiery denunciations of imperialism, but manages to give a vivid account of a revolution which greatly influenced U. S. history before the Civil...
...second fallacy represents a short-sighted view of man's genuine make-up, for whether or not we are immediately affected, "We do care." What we consider the noblest of mankind, even outside of Sunday church, have always devoted themselves to that which went beyond their immediate interests, whether it be the unknown in knowledge or the betterment of mankind for its own sake.... Man is a social animal, and thus a moral animal. What has happened in Germany shocked us because it attacks our faith in this nobler nature of man. It attacks not merely our Christian heritage...
...bringing these Jewish refugees into the United States (or into almost any other country, for that matter), you will have Anti-Semitism breaking out like malaria (And God knows the anti-Jewish feeling is prevalent enough here now). There are far too many people jobless or economically insecure to view an influx of job competitors calmly. That the situation might get pretty nasty, goes without saying...