Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those who could follow him, it looked as if modern art must be the end of the line...
...modern artists could expect their work to be seen by so many; few, happily, were likely to see such odd interpretations of their work. Millions of Americans had already seen the reproductions in U.S. magazines; Upjohn hoped to keep the show traveling until some 10,000,000 people had seen the originals...
...them how to have better local schools. A caravan crew of 30 piled from the buses, began filling schoolrooms with up-to-date equipment, setting up shining new swings and jungle gyms in dusty playgrounds. In the next twelve hours, local educators and laymen got a whirlwind course in modern educational improvements...
Last week, prosperous Kent School, with 300 students, 26 teachers, and $2,000,000 worth of modern colonial buildings sprawled along Connecticut's meandering Housatonic River, made an administrative departure. It hired a new headmaster who has a wife and four growing kids...
This sad and ridiculous situation is the starting point of William Sansom's smoothly joined and brightly told study of middle-aged delusional jealousy. Henry Bishop yearned for the days when people gently chased butterflies with nets; by contrast, he found modern life crude and vulgar. Until Diver's appearance, his 20 years of marriage with Madge had been plain, placid and passionless. Diver was all energy and heartiness. To Madge's amusement, he thrust trick gadgets at Henry-a golden dog whose eyes lit up, a dinner plate that leaped up convulsively...