Word: wars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good will and learning tour was planned in 1939 but was delayed ten years by the war. This year's 29 students were chosen from a total of 300 who applied for the chance to make the trip...
Galbraith, who was director of the Office of Economic Security Policy during the war, will continue to direct research in farm problems and teach Economics 107, 161, and 207--courses in prices, consumption and distribution, and business organization...
Though born in America, Grosz has spent most of his 56 years in Germany. During his entire artistic career he has depicted and satirized many types of human folly; but he has always reserved his most savage and telling strokes for the institution of War. "A Piece of My World" contains works by Grosz that are taken from many stages of his career. Despite a regrettable lack of dates on most of the paintings, the observer can follow Grosz' progress from early attacks on specific, topical subjects to abstract, but unmistakable blows at broad subjects like warfare and wretchedness...
...most startling work in the group, apart from aesthetic considerations, is his pen drawing, "The White General," dated 1919. Standing against a background of human misery and brutality, is an exact representation of the Nazi of World War H--complete with Storm Trooper helmet and swastika insignia. Grosz saw things very clearly 30 years...
While the collection has omitted some of Grosz's best work, including most of his vitriolic satires of decadent German society after World War I, it is excellent as far as it goes...