Word: wholeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole Germany's agricultural situation is no better and no worse than it was in 1914. But one thing has changed very much for the worse: the fuel oil needs for a modern mechanized army and air service. In the event of a major war Germany will need 15 to 20 million tons of oil a year. The entire annual yield of the nearby Rumanian fields, assuming Germany could and would quickly take Rumania through Hungary, is short of 7,000,-ooo tons and synthetic production in Germany can hardly exceed a million tons. Furthermore, number one truism...
...sometimes said that the U. S. coal industry, disposed as it is to overproduce, needs a good strike about every three years. For the nation as a whole this is certainly no formula for wealth and plenty. The six-week soft-coal deadlock that ended last week caused serious and conspicuous economic damage. Retail trade in the strike area dropped 15% to 20%. Estimates of the total loss of purchasing power ran as high as $100,000,000. Though last week's settlement came in time to prevent large-scale stoppage of factories, ships or railroads, the effects...
...beautiful things we are furthering democracy itself. That is why this museum is a citadel of civilization. . . . Because it has been conceived as a national institution, the Museum can enrich and invigorate our cultural life. . . . The opportunity before the Museum of Modern Art is as broad as the whole United States...
Burning question for many readers may well be: what do the Beards think of the New Deal and Franklin D. Roosevelt? Adept at juggling hot coals, the cagey Beards are much too light-fingered to hold one of them a minute too long, on the whole admire most New Deal intentions, are politely skeptical of most New Deal results...
...unpretentious nature of real people, real feelings, and real situations. That most of the paintings were framed and hung by members of the Museum Class contributes not a little toward making the exhibit something more than a vapid supplement to an afternoon tea party. There is nothing in the whole collection reminiscent of the phrase "art for art's sake," that syrupy expression which connotes lack of sincerity: in short, lack of something to say. Therefore, those people who attend art exhibits because it is the thing to do--pseudo-aesthetes who come well stocked with the latest artistic catchwords...