Word: unmodern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...name if not of his books. To take advantage of his sudden fame, Publisher Knopf rushed two Bunin reprints (The Gentleman from San Francisco, The Village) through the press, last fortnight brought out his latest (translated) novel, The Well of Days. Readers of this grave, sensitive but unmodern autobiographical novel may now see what Author Bunin is about, will agree that the Nobel Prize Committee could have made many a worse choice. An unreconstructed rebel against the Soviets, Author Bunin left Russia some 16 years ago, lives an exile's life at Grasse, France. The Well of Days tells...
...medical protection in force at other institutions makes the provision afforded by Harvard seem indefensible. The construction of the physical plant must await the generosity of an individual or an appropriation by the Corporation; the rehabilitation and expansion of the medical staff and service, though hampered by the present unmodern facilities, ought not to be delayed longer...