Word: modernities
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...commonplaces of the 20th Century that modern artists have not met it; most of them-in their modern preoccupation with the mortal nature of man-have not even tried. Yet, as the century reached midpoint, there was evidence that here & there, though with only debatable degrees of success, creative men in the Christian world have been turning to the old challenge and the old theme. Among them, in literature, have been Novelist Graham Greene and Poet T. S. Eliot. In music, such composers as Igor Stravinsky and Francis Poulenc (TIME, Nov. 27) have attempted the awesome task of setting...
After a lifetime of producing pictures meant to relax the looker-"like a comfortable armchair"-old Modern Henri Matisse is at work finishing his designs for a Dominican chapel in the Provençal village of Vence. Not too far away, at Assy in the French Alps, Père Couturier has made the art of Moderns Fernand Léger, Jean Lurçat and Georges Rouault shine clean and fresh in the new mountain church (TIME, June...
...cover and in the color pages following, TIME this week presents works by a handful of modern artists, neither great nor well-known, but inspired by something of the same joyous challenge that inspired Donne. Each has managed to illustrate in his own way a facet of the Christmas story...
...Most modern nurses start training for their careers at 18, but it was not always so: the mother of the nursing sisterhood thought 18 much too young. In a letter published for the first time in the current British Medical Journal, Florence Nightingale gave some advice on the question...
...James Thurber's fairy tale of how Prince Zorn, with the help of a mysterious character named Golux, brought time to life, Saralinda to wife, and the Duke to a hideous hereafter. Like all good fairy tales-and The Thirteen Clocks is one of the cleverest that any modern writer has been able to tell-Thurber's story may mean only what it says; it may also mean a good deal more that the author has characteristically made no attempt to spell...