Word: whims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lenient and even worshipful to Winslow Homer, Mr. Cahill at least gives good reasons for his preferonech, and he never lets the historical and nocini nilliett get out of night; he is obviously a nationalist who believes in an indigenous American art, not subservient to European tradition or contemporary whim, but integrated with the actualities of the society in which it is conceived. Like everybody else nowadays, Mr. Cahill sees through the "fatal facility" of Sargent; on the other hand he is not intinridated by the pretensions of modernism. "There is no health in introspection," he wisely says; "the cultivation...
Still more painful is another aspect of the Dartmouth murals. The recklessness that allowed that college to sink valuable money in the satisfaction of a whim when endowment funds are sharing the pinch of the times is born of a short-sighted policy, to say the least. It probably never occured to university officials that perhaps they would some day want to tear down the library to make way for a large power house or laundry, and what would then become of the money spent in patronizing Orozco. Can anyone say that a mural depicting the growth of a distinctive...
...Russia's Constitution provides that the Soviet Congress meet every year. Actually it is convened at the whim of the Dictatorship, last...
...results of the "trial balloon" Literary Digest poll must come as a surprise to the average citizen who has received the impression during the last year that the government would satisfy his merest whim. The fact that industry and agriculture however, have not gained confidence from this policy is probably responsible for the Administration's declining popularity. Should these results be further tested by a nation-wide survey before Election...
...Transport Corp. First awarded in 1929 to Orville Wright, the Guggenheim Medal has gone each year to outstanding scientists in advanced aeronautical engineering. No aeronautical engineer is this year's winner, but a hard-headed industrialist who turned to flying as a hobby, began making airplanes as a whim and ended up by giving the world a new standard of aircraft performance. To him went the award for "successful pioneering and achievement in aircraft manufacture and air transportation." Son of a wealthy Michigan lumberman, "Bill" Boeing went to Yale, left to learn the logging business. Taught...