When i lost my possessions, i found my creativity. i felt i was being born for the first time. so for me the world became beautiful.
with the crash, i realized that the greatest fantasy of all was business. the only realistic way of making a living was versifying. living off your imagination.
based on the excerpt, which best describes harburg’s view of the great depression?
he has no interest in financial success for himself.
he values artistic success over financial success for himself.
he believes most people benefited from losing their financial stability.
he regrets the fact that he gave away his money to benefit his art.

the answer to this question is c.

the speech this question is referring to is president kennedy's special message to the congress on urgent national needs, may 25, 1961

kennedy responds in a very direct and concrete way to those thinking that communism is a positive system:

"yet their aggression is more often concealed than open. they have fired no missiles; and their troops are seldom seen. they send arms, agitators, aid, technicians and propaganda to every troubled area. but where fighting is required, it is usually done by others--by guerrillas striking at night, by assassins striking alone--assassins who have taken the lives of four thousand civil officers in the last twelve months in vietnam alone--by subversives and saboteurs and insurrectionists, who in some cases control whole areas inside of independent nations." (kennedy)

president kennedy presents communism as cowardly, as a hidden and treacherous weapon that strikes from the shadows like thieves, he represents the system as not even being capable of showing and open and overt attack or confrontation. to finish up the response, he expresses that the system attacks even a country's idependence and freedom.