Word: wholeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...folk art may be of another sort, it may be a product consciously created by an individual artist which is seized by the public as a whole and thus made a part of the life of the time. It is into this category that the art of Walt Disney falls, and to him goes the honor of developing the first national folk art since the founding of America. Strangely enough, industry and mechanics, which are the death warrant of spontaneous public art, are the spark of life of this second type of folk art. And even more strange...
Many people, however, will dispute the fact that the Disney Studios are producing the art of a whole nation, they will say that it is a mere passing fad, accelerated by the Metropolitan Museum's acceptance of a few pictures and by a college professor's study of Disney work. But when they say this they are not looking at the facts, for the American public as a whole has long been conscious and long interested in animated movies, and there is no indication of cessation in this interest. It is almost safe to predict that the American public will...
...whole Coach Ulen's gloom ought to have a Crimson lining by the time the evening's over...
...closing his laboratory henceforth to "visits from citizens of totalitarian states" Dr. Bridgman has, to be sure, made a magnificent protest. As an attempt to object publicly to the prostitution of knowledge to the worldly aims of an individual state the effort has proved wildly successful--the whole world is indisputably convinced of Dr. Bridgman's aversion to government regulation of scientific research. But in its broader significance, in the possible scope of its influence, the recently pronounced ban has several conspicuous aspects which stamp it as an impractical, misguided, dangerous effort...
...hardly likely that the cardinals will elect a pawn of Mussolini, "because today the college of cardinals is more representative of the whole church in the various countries of the world, and because the enthusiasm of many Italian cardinals for Mussolini has dampened...