Word: wars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...begins it by taking issue with the scholars now writing about the Civil War...
...Workable Adjustment. The noted Lincoln biographer, James G. Randall, holds that the Civil War was the work of a "blundering generation," stirred up by "fanaticism" and "warmaking agitation." Other "revisionists," e.g., Professor Avery Craven of the University of Chicago, argue that slavery would have broken down of its own weight, that the war was made inevitable as a result of irresponsible leadership by power-driven politicians. What those leaders should have done, adds Columbia University's Allan Nevins, "was to furnish a workable adjustment" between the North & South...
...Arthur Schlesinger, this view of the Civil War is both pulpy and dangerous. It glides over the fact "that the slavery system was producing a closed society in the South" and that to protect its slave economics, the South was resorting to "book-burning, the censorship of the mails [and] the gradual illegalization of dissent." Adds Schlesinger: "When a society based on bond slavery acts to eliminate criticism ... it outlaws what a believer in democracy can only regard as the abiding values...
...Afterglow. The problem, in Schlesinger's view, involves more than the Civil War alone. It "raises basic questions about the whole modern view of history ... I cannot escape the feeling that the vogue of revisionism is connected with the modern tendency to seek in optimistic sentimentalism an escape from the severe demands of moral decision...
...Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute last week, the year's handsomest cross section of current U.S. painting went on display. It was the last of the institute's national surveys; next year the Carnegie will go back to its international annuals which were interrupted by the war. Smaller and more selective than Paris' "Salon d'Automne" (TIME, Oct. 17), the Carnegie exhibition proved that U.S. artists can hold their own with the French...