Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ditch diggers and bank presidents wore bright-colored Aloha shirts to work; women appeared in gay, ankle-length muu-muus,* modern models of the Mother Hubbards which early missionaries had hung on native Hawaiian girls. A big, bronzed, part-Hawaiian gas company foreman named Charles Kramer acted as Alii, or king of the celebration, attended parades, parties, sports events, suitably attired in scanty trunks, a long yellow cloak and a bright-colored helmet...
Back in Mexico, in 1922, Siqueiros followed through with a manifesto which Orozco and Diego Rivera both signed, and which started the eruption of modern Mexican art. Its thesis: art is for social welfare, not private pleasure, and should therefore be large-scale and easy to understand. The three men formed the nucleus of a union-the Syndicate of Technical Workers, Painters and Sculptors-and negotiated contracts with an extraordinarily sympathetic and discerning government to paint murals at so much per square meter...
Some of Siqueiros' friends-among them Diego Rivera-wonder how long he can stick to his resolution. It was Rivera who first called Siqueiros the modern Benvenuto Cellini. "When there was a revolution in Mexico," says Rivera, "Siqueiros was in tune with the times. But now the times are soft, and he has been slow in growing soft with them. He has not been able to change with the moods of his countrymen...
Weakest part of the magazine is the poetry. Only Anne Tolstol's "Carmel" is free from banality and fuzziness. "The Neurotic" is overloaded with the cliches of modern poetry, while "Autumn," a quatrain, consists of what seems to be an inaccurate metaphor. "Carmel," a delicate landscape in verse, has an effortless meter, and is one of the most rewarding pieces recently seen in local publications...
...mass of small issues that will constitute the very stuff of the study. Stephan declares, it will probably prove easy to forget the large goal. That objective was set forth in the report: "to examine as critically and systematically as possible through the use of modern techniques all aspects of residential University life, including both instructional methods and programs and extracurricular activities, for their effect on the student's intellectual, moral and physical development...