Word: modernizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fair Corporation found himself besieged by Manhattan artists. Their grievance: that the Fair had failed to allocate ground or building for an art exhibition (TIME, Feb. 7). Last week Mr. Whalen and his directors faced growing criticism from another quarter. On view at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art were two sets of pictures, contrasted with a minimum of comment: 1) sketches for houses of the familiar "modern Colonial" type in a "Town of Tomorrow" planned to cover ten acres at the New York World's Fair; 2) photographs of a community of handsome houses built...
...extracurricular activity in the public weal would be their best argument for a Federal Bureau of Fine Arts. Last May the Union's Public Use of Arts Committee started preparing an exhibition of murals and sculpture for subways which last week opened at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Said the Museum's catalogue...
When Jules Romains published the first volume of his Men of Good Will he announced in sonorous phrases his purpose- to write a vast work in which modern French society would be the hero. He might be compared with the builder of a city who lays out his streets in advance, builds one house beside the other methodically, pausing from time to time to call attention to the increase in population. But in building his city of Jefferson, Miss, in six novels and three books of short stories, William Faulkner has followed a far more devious path. In effect...
...echoed throughout the Cantos are two ancient legends-the Homeric tale of Odysseus' journey through Hades, the Ovidian tale of the seamen who, while kidnapping Bacchus, were transformed to dolphins as their ship, becalmed, sprouted grape-laden vines. The legends appear indiscriminately in ancient. Renaissance and modern dress, according to whichever time or whatever place Poet Pound's eruditely literate, expatriated sensibilities lead him to be thinking about. The resultant confusion is only skin-deep -since to any man, anywhere, any time, life may seem like Hell; and some sea-change in men or matter may, anywhere...
...current season on Broadway under the direction of 22-year-old Orson Welles, is noted for (1 the acting of Walter Hampden, 2 the faithful reproduction of Shakespearian costumes, 3 the fact that Julius Caesar is presented to New York audiences for the first time in ten years, 4 modern, up-to-date dress and interpretation, 5 its accurate use of Shakespearian English...