Word: modernist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entirely different type is the work "Central Park" by George Grosz. A true modernist he likes broad splashes of bright colors and brings out his ideas from impressions created by these. An other differing type also are the bitter satires of "The Senate" by William Gropper and of "Landscape Near Chicago" by Aaron Bohrod. Both of these works bring out the grotesque and the absurd in American life...
...Albanian hillside overlooking the sea, the post-War town of Kravnik is booming along at a great rate. In fact, it is a rare combination of modernist architecture, cosmopolitan inhabitants and the speed-up system. Beautiful to look at, Kravnik is a microcosmic capitalistic nightmare, presided over oy half-a-dozen commercial despots. Hamid, who has a perfectly good though rapidly fattening wife at home, lures stenographers into his sanctum and then makes a certain proposal. The Savoff brothers are never so happy as when they can devise some such scheme as dividing the 12-hour working day into...
...commissioners (delegates) made ready to journey last week to Syracuse, N. Y. for the 148th annual General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A., in Philadelphia a famed and zealous Fundamentalist geared for action. Dr. John Gresham Machen professes to believe he is persecuted by a "Modernist Machine" in power in the church. In his Fundamentalist Presbyterian, Guardian last fortnight Fundamentalist Machen warned his disciples not to be deceived at the General Assembly by the way the Machine would "conceal the real issues" by limitation of debate, parliamentary bullying from the moderator's chair, celebrating...
...Kennedy. Superbly banal was Paul Trebilcock's slick portrait study of Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt in red velvet with her sister Thelma, Viscountess Furness. A rare French influence showed in Split Rock Lighthouse by Minnesota's Eleanor DeLaitre, a yellow lighthouse painted with the vivid shallowness of French Modernist Raoul Dufy. Missouri's John de Martelly offered two ably cartooned old crones in Economic Discussion over coffee & doughnuts...
...weekly concerts of the Symphony in Boston include the Brahms concerto with Schnabel, and two new works, "Sinfonia of Antigona" and "Sinfonia India" by the Mexican modernist, Carlos Chavez, with the composer himself conducting...