Word: working
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...until an issue arises before forming such committees for defense of academic freedom, which may be interpreted as the freedom to study as well as the freedom of students and teachers to speak their minds. Issues enough are at hand. The Industrial Mobilization Plan, which would conscript youth for work in factories in war time, is in the hands of the President: there has been a steady shrinkage of funds for education and as steady shrinkage of funds for education and as steady an in crease of funds for armaments; and right now the Dies Committee is engaging...
...have neither the intention nor the desire to raise or have raised with me subjects having to do with the war. They are entirely outside the sphere of my work...
...inferior novels to get a first-rate one; 2) what determines the first-rateness of a novel is not hatred of fascism, love of democracy, reverence for the U. S. past, emulation of best-seller formulas, adhesion to the Party Line, good intentions, or hard work. It is, rather, a private and non-negotiable possession, namely, creative talent...
...which are now being shown, one by Hopper and the remaining three by Sargent. The Hopper landscape serves only to heighten my belief in the excellence of the artist; the solid buildings, the clear pigment, and the clean spaciousness within which each part of the painting exists, are the work of a master painter. No element in Hopper's piece is created "in vacuo"; the houses, mountains, and the water are each related to the other in a very real sense, yet we are not conscious of any obvious attempt on the part of the artist to bring these elements...
Siepmann graduated from Oxford University in 1921, and since then has been connected with the B. B. C. He has organized news talks and adult educational programs, supervised work of the B. B. C. regional stations, and from 1936 until he came here he has been Director of Program Planning...