Word: 1900s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...critic and charter member of London's once celebrated Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals (others: John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster, and Bell's sister-in-law Virginia Woolf), a vociferous champion of such post impressionists as Cézanne, Van Gogh and Gauguin in the early 1900s when other Britons thought them horrid; of cancer; in London...
...current so-called "golden age of cinema," in which "metaphysical poets" of the screen subject their audiences to tortured inner visions or declare their independence from the human race, will look as phony and irrelevant 20 years from now as the films d'art of the early 1900s-the delight of "cultured" movie audiences of yesteryear -do today...
Erik Satie was the court musician of Dadaism. He swooped around Paris in the belle époque of the 1900s with a lighted pipe in his pocket and could be seen most afternoons in the cafés with his pocket gently smoldering. He pronounced himself Pope of the "Metropolitan Church of Art of Jesus the Conductor," issued blizzards of encyclicals and excommunicated unfriendly music critics. He cheerfully orchestrated his music for airplane propellers, lottery wheels and typewriters-and occasion ally delivered it to his friends in the form of paper gliders. He also wrote a little work for piano...
...wrote, "is not only crippling, but wanting in elegance of rationale." Dr. Moore, who drives himself hard and ignores any possible effects on his own digestion, insists that the basic cause of ulcers is still unknown. The dazzling variety of stomach operations devised between 1886 and the mid-1900s. says he, made many "digestive cripples." may have caused more ulcers than were ever cured, and killed too many patients. The first great advance in ulcer treatment, says Dr. Moore, came in 1943, when Chicago's Dr. Lester R. Dragstedt reported that cutting the vagus nerves (vagotomy) would keep...
...could recognize important tendencies and strengths in his pupils, then draw these out and enlarge them. Four of his pupils were Robert Henri. George Luks, William Glackens and John Sloan, all destined to become city realists who dramatized the piercingly lonely everyday life of New York in the early 1900s, and all better known-until now-than courtly old Professor Anshutz...