Word: modernizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Getting through New Haven's commando-course will be something of a problem, however, for anyone not safely in a bus. The legendary New Haven trolleys have bowed to the modern age, but the streets are still clogged and slow. And taxis are high...
Poetry has a greater relevance today than almost ever in the past, Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, said last night, in an Eliot House symposium on the "Poet and Modern Society...
Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, J. A. Richards, University Professor, and J. Douglas Bush, professor of English, will discuss the "Poet and Modern Society" at a symposium at 8 p.m. tonight in the Eliot House dining hall...
Alfred Stieglitz was the best photographer ever to come down the pike. Until he died in 1946, the spindly, black-caped little man was also a prophetic educator in the cause of modern art. His widow, Painter Georgia O'Keeffe, has carried on his educational work as executrix of his will by dividing Stieglitz' brilliant art collection and his own even more brilliant photographs among six widely spaced institutions: Manhattan's Metropolitan, Chicago's Art Institute, Washington's National Gallery, the Library of Congress, the Philadelphia Museum and Fisk University (for Negroes) in Tennessee...
Castles & Caves. U.S. ballet fans, awaiting the arrival of the English company, had been eager to see Sadler's Wells' modern English ballets-with choreography by De Valois, Helpmann and Frederick Ashton. Among the best of these were De Valois' animated chess game, Checkmate, her Rake's Progress (after Hogarth's famous drawing sequence) and Ashton's gay Wedding Bouquet and impish Façade (to music by William Walton). They were performed with a brittle wit and a steely stylishness...