Word: modernizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After conferring the galerum rubrum (red hat) and cappa magna (Cardinal's cloak) on the six new Cardinals named last month (TIME, Dec. 2), His Holiness Pope Pius XI last week published an encyclical letter to the Catholic episcopacy. Excerpt: "The greatest malady of the modern age, the principal source of the evils we all deplore, is the lack of reflection. . . . There is only one remedy which I can propose. This is to invite tired souls to have recourse to spiritual exercises. . . . We must not neglect this supernatural breath which is life to many souls...
...Meeting of Modern Language Association of America at Cleveland...
...Olmsted began teaching at St. Mark's. In 1897 he left to go to what was then called Peck's School, a sparse collection of school buildings on a hill a mile south of Pomfret, Conn. Within three decades he fashioned it into an orderly T-shaped array of modern Colonial dormitories and classrooms, looking confidently across wide, well kept grounds. He gathered an able faculty, capable of educating educables as well as any of the famed New England schools...
Without descending to a technicality which would tax the understanding of more modern seafarers, Stanford nevertheless brings to the pages of his novel a real tang of the sea. His straightforward style, carries forward a tale spread over several years, without omitting anything but unessentials. Compactly, tersely worded, with excellent selection of detail, "Invitation to Danger" has not a single wasted chapter or paragraph...
Themes such as death and the beginning of life give Mr. Powys occasion for no mean bit of modern metaphysics. A few of the titles. "The Withered Leaf and the Green" and "The Corpse and the Flea" suggest very much John Donne. At the same time this present-day Aesop keeps his faith with Donne in little thrusts of realism that actually make the reader shudder. All this, as said before, is quite smart: and yet almost as everyday as the "Farmer's Almanac...