Grant Wood's paintings were influenced by the landscape of his home; the Midwest and it's inhabitants. As one of America's most famous regional painters, Wood loved his work just as he loved America. He claimed to be "the plainest kind of fellow you can find. There isn't a single thing I've done, or...
Grant Wood's paintings were influenced by the landscape of his home; the Midwest and it's inhabitants. As one of America's most famous regional painters, Wood loved his work just as he loved America. He claimed to be "the plainest kind of fellow you can find. There isn't a single thing I've done, or...
Whittier College did not have the usual fraternities or sororities, but it did have the Franklins, a snobbish and high brow society, whose members wore black ties and dinner jackets to school functions, and which included the town's richer families. ... Nixon viewed political opponents as adversaries, in his campaign against Voorhis "he was out for the kill, as if destroying the man was his primary mission rather than providing genuine political leadership."" ( ) Nixon's exploitation of the "red scare- proved effective once again when he used it in his next election in 1950, this tim...
