Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other craftsmen from the Scottish mainland work, pray and live together with the 30-odd "young ministers of the Community. The rebuilding of lona is a means to an end, and has a twofold purpose: 1) to learn "what it means to be 'corporately separate' for the 20th Century. By our worship and our common life on the island we get something of ... a microcosmic but concentrated foretaste of what a 'Congregation' should be"; 2) "to sit at meat with craftsmen brothers who . . . are in touch all winter with the mainland industrial pressures...
Died. Pierre Bonnard, 80, great 20th Century impressionist painter, one of France's "Big Four" of modern art (with Picasso, Matisse, Rouault); on the Riviera, near Cannes...
Afternoons, Young tries to get in some golf, often breaks 80. At night, he likes to read. His favorite authors are Mark Twain and Dumas (Young sometimes refers to himself as "the D'Artagnan of the 20th Century...
...Recorder. Blackford wrote home as often and as fully as possible, realizing that impressions faded quickly and eager to preserve as much of his experience as he could. "I fear all these stories bore you," Blackford apologized to his wife. But 20th Century readers will be grateful for the sharp little anecdotes and graphic glimpses on almost every page. Samples...
Selden Rodman's anthology (a Modern Library Giant), first published in 1939 and now issued in a revised edition, has sold 39,000 copies to date (the Modern Library's smaller, cheaper 20th Century American Poetry, edited by Conrad Aiken, has also sold 60,000 since 1927). Less compendious and more personal in his choices than Untermeyer, Rodman has arrayed his poems not chronologically but by categories to show the best points of modernity-from Hardy and Yeats to Dylan Thomas and Robert Lowell. His taste may be quarreled with by the many as it certainly will...