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Dumbfoundingly, Phillips' American Negro Slavery, published in 1918, remained a dominant force in slave historiography for 30 years. Despite WPA interviews with former slaves in the 1930s and the work of a number of black historians, which went largely ignored, it was not until the period between Gunnar Myrdal's American Dilemma in 1944 and Kenneth Stampp's The Peculiar Institution (1956) that emphasis began to be placed on environment and the effects that slavery had on blacks and black culture. The stereotype of childlike, lackadaisical behavior of plantation blacks remained, though it now began...
Kimball sees the work as a sort of spiritual WPA-a task that keeps older Mormons both busy and feeling needed...
Died . George Biddle , 88 , portrait painter and muralist who in 1933 helped found the WPA art project that lasted through the 1930s and provided work for such artists as Jackson Pollock, Reginald Marsh and Willem de Kooning; in Croton-on-Hudson, N. Y. A Harvard-trainedlawyer whose brother, Francis Biddle, was U.S. Attorney General from 1941 to 1945, Biddle turned to art when he was 26, and became best known for the frescoes he painted in the Department of Justice building in Washington
Chronologically, the images stretch from the first page of the first story in the first issue-a Saturday night in Fort Peck, Mont., in 1936, where WPA workers are whooping it up at a local saloon -to a recent moment when Dick Cavett made fun of TV talk shows by interviewing Louis, his own poodle. The book embraces one Depression, five wars, five Presidents, and that picture of Rita Hayworth in a black-bodiced, white satin nightgown. Fiorello La Guardia appears, blowing smoke rings with bemused insouciance. So does Nikita Khrushchev, shaking his fist in the face...
ANYTHING GOES was before our time -- 1943 to be exact -- but who cares? The less quibbling about the insertion of Cole Porter songs from other shows and the fewer praises for Ethel Merman, the better. Take the references to the WPA, the Depression and Prohibition as camp antiques or anachronisms, but take them. At Leverett House, anything goes, and almost everything goes well...