Word: modernist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thrown in for good measure, and while thrown in for good measure, and while we cannot but approve the senti ment which suggests that the liquor customarily used at the christening of a ship might better be dedicated to beverage purposes, we feel bound to protest against any such modernist scheme of versification. The redeeming feature of this page is the excellent drawing by Mr. Codfish Cabot showing Lampy in the act of launching a ship emblematic of the fifty years of his jovial existence...
...exhibition at Fogg Museum the most important are the marble portrait statue of Mestrovic's mother and the bronzed plaster nude entitled 'Memories', said Director Forbes. "The two carven wood panels. 'The Unhappy Angel' and 'Boy' are illustrative of the type of work being done by several modernist supporters...
...follows:--"It was not intended as a retraction of any representation of the booklet, but as an explanation of how I can hold to my new faith without giving up the old-accept the revelation of science, yet not reject that of tradition, and be at once a Modernist, Fundamentalist, Christian, Jew, Mohammedar, Buddhist and what...
...second William Belden Noble lecture of the year will be held at 8 o'clock tonight in Emerson D. Reverend Henry D. A. Major, Principal of Ripon Hall. Oxford, England will speak on "The Relation of Modernism to the Christian Church: Causes, Which Convert the Traditionalist into the Modernist...
...been the diversion of certain modernist critics to write about music in terms of color, painting in the idiom of sound. They have pleasantly conjectured how Beethoven's Fifth Symphony would taste if the listener's auditory nerves were transferred to his lips; what sort of noise a banana would make did the observer devour it with his ears. Last week Harry Grindell-Matthews, British inventor of the "death-ray" (TIME, June 2 & 9, 1924, SCIENCE), demonstrated certain devices with which he had turned theoretical flippancies of the dilettanti into mechanical realism. It is of course an impossibility...