Word: modernistic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...talk at the Liberal Club on Tuesday was one of a series of talks he is giving at the leading universities of the East in the course of his three month tour of the United States. Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, the prominent Modernist who talked at the Phillips Brooks House earlier this year, has said of Mr. Richards that "he represents a large area of the best informed and most Christian public opinion of his nation...
...portrait be lifesize, it must be done in a style conformable to the decoration of the woman's drawing room. If the drawing room is Louis XV period, so must be the picture. Since many drawing rooms are modern, with Oriental motifs, many pictures are done in ultra-modernist style, all attention given to pose and expression, costumes indicated by a few strokes with oriental backgrounds. Fernand Goin, Jean Gabriel Domergue, Van Dongen are reported to be doing many portraits of this kind. "They have their sittings booked for months ahead, like fashionable dentists...
...modernist? But no, I am not a modernist. That is a debauched term (mot compromisé). The modernists set out to shock the bourgeoisie, and they only succeed in pleasing the Bolsheviki. My music is neither 'futurist' nor 'passéist,' but the music of today...
...Fosdick is a member of the faculty of the Union Theological Seminary in New York. He was formerly pastor of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church of New York, but resigned because of conflict with the Presbyterian authorities over the Modernist doctrines which he advocated from his pulpit...
...York, and by his fearless expression of his beliefs from the pulpit. During the last few months, he has encountered the Reverend Charles Francis Potter, one of the leading advocates of Modernism in a series of debates held in New York City. As Dr. Potter upheld the Modernist side of the debate in a lecture last October in the Phillips Brooks House, Dr. Straton's lecture will be in the nature of a reply to some of the sensational charges made by the Modernist leader at that time...