Word: wpa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...applause lines like "I think the choice is the arms race or the human race." Simon may confound liberal orthodoxy by his support of a balanced-budget amendment, but the centerpiece of his domestic agenda remains an almost nostalgic $8 billion public jobs program, modeled after Franklin Roosevelt's WPA. There is a lingering suspicion that Democratic voters are just flirting with Simon before they pledge their troth to a more conventionally marriageable candidate. As a top strategist to a Democratic rival puts it, "There is a distinct limit to how much his support can grow...
...five. His mother, who had five other children, scratched by on welfare for years un til she was able to go back to work as a schoolteacher. "To this day," Weakland says, "I can't look at brown corduroy knickers without getting sick, because if you wore those WPA clothes everybody knew you were on welfare...
DIED. Alice Neel, 84, unconventional expressionist painter who specialized in representational but psychologically revealing portraits (including an occasional TIME cover: Feminist Kate Millett, 1970, Franklin Roosevelt, 1982) of cancer; in New York City. Neel starved during the Depression but eventually partook of the New Deal's WPA assistance. Long submerged in the tide of abstract expressionism, she was rediscovered in the late 1960s, and following a 1974 retrospective at New York City's Whitney Museum had numerous one-woman and group shows...
This prosperity would not come the old Republican way, by letting the free market create wealth that might then trickle down to the lower classes. It would come instead by using Government to create jobs. Through a host of alphabet agencies-the NRA, the CCC, the WPA-the New Deal pumped money into the economy, artificially creating demand for goods and services. It took World War II to really spur production and cure the Depression, but by then F.D.R. had won a victory of the spirit. His programs attacked not only poverty but helplessness. The poor and dispossessed began...
...been precocious before they met. Krasner had a very full art education: in fact, no American could have had a better one in the '30s. First, rigorous academic grounding under the atelier system at the Art Students League in New York; then large-scale practical experience on the WPA murals in the '30s; finally, three years (1937-40) under the great emigre teacher Hans Hermann, who knew the fabled phoenixes of Europe (Matisse, Kandinsky, Mondrian) and could transmit their ideas to his students. As a disciplined draftsman, she was nearly the equal of De Kooning and better than...