Word: modernist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Fair, which will be twice as big, San Franciscans point out that their fair buildings are costing slightly more to the acre than the eye-fillers on Flushing Meadows. One item in this cost is presumably the quantity of sculpture with which San Francisco's non-modernist but imposing buildings will be adorned. No less than 20 local sculptors had been working undisturbed with the exposition architects, until meaty Irishman Connick, who was chief engineer for the 1915 San Francisco fair and later finance chairman of Famous Players Lasky Corp., became executive director fortnight...
...life an affection for Spanish folk music, allowed its idioms to influence many of his compositions. Despite a reputation for extreme diligence at the Paris Conservatoire, where he matriculated in 1889, he quickly became known as an iconoclast, scandalized students and teachers by playing the works of then unrespectable modernist composers during school hours. Refusal of academicians to admit him as a contestant for the Prix de Rome in 1905 started a row resulting in the resignation of the Conservatoire's Director FranQois Theodore Dubois...
...Manhattanites, including hundreds whom bribery or culture-maddened wives could not have dragged to the ordinary Sunday-night doings, elbowed each other before Radio City's Center Theatre, paid as high as $5.50 a seat to see a hash of items mostly warmed over from past modernist recitals. Three hundred and fifty standees broke the theatre's record, established on the closing night of The Great Waltz. As the formal conclusion of Manhattan's five-week Olympic Dance International, what was old stuff to Greenwich Village longhairs became a tiptop Broadway box-office attraction...
...shouts T love you, I love you.' To my mind that is something that you should whisper. . . . Look at his orchestration, that mass of different instruments in unison!" Wagner "suggests a butler who has been created a baron." About the music of Stravinsky he is unenthusiastic, finds extreme Modernist Schonberg "unsympathetic...
...been more famous for her athletes than for her salons. But Tavasts and Karelians (all Finns are one or the other) point with greater pride to Finland's world's champion literacy record, boast that, except for 0.9% every last Finn today can read and write, exhibit Modernist Architect Eliel Saarinen as world evidence of Finnish culture. If you were to ask on the streets of a U. S. city who was the outstanding modern Finn, chances are the reply would be: Paavo Nurmi. But if you asked the same question on the streets of Helsingfors the answer...