Word: crude
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said fiery Modernist Howe: "In America with its vast resources of natural and human energy in constant volcanic eruption, cities, factories, warehouses and elevators have been thrown up in towering accidental masses, as exciting as the Rocky Mountains and also as crude and little subject to esthetic control. In Europe, less disorderly but with no more discretion, most of the new districts can evoke no emotion but blank despair, and even Paris has been partially saved only by the pride of its dead tyrants. . . . The modern movement is a conscious effort to direct and canalize the stupendous energy of modern...
Parried Conservative Walker: "It has been reserved for the so-called Modernists to be irritated at any resemblance to anything that has calm, and to adore excess in every direction, to be shapeless, crude, eliminated in detail to nothingness, explosive in detail to chaos . . . creating sensation with the slapstick and the bludgeon. Modernism may change the methods of architecture, but when it does it will necessarily have in it traditions of sound previous methods, with which at present it is in conflict ... at times infantile and often callow. . . . Occasionally it reaches a serious adult stage. Therefore Hope is struggling...
...Germany last week the gesticulating mobsmen were wrought up over a new phylloxera paradox. They were all peasants who have planted a particularly coarse American vine which flourishes on German soil almost without care. Growing like a weed, it yields mass production quantities of a crude, strong wine which can be sold to workmen's taverns at a big profit per acre. Abounding in strength, the American vine carries without harm to itself a phylloxera louse which is now spreading with deadly results to the laboriously tended German vines of neighboring estates in the Rkeinpfalz...
...Alsatian stock, Debs was born Nov. 5, 1855 into a respectable bourgeois family at crude, democratic Terre Haute, Ind. His father kept a grocery store, read Victor Hugo. Gene left school at 14, spent a year scraping paint in a Vandalia railroad shop, became a locomotive fireman on the old Terre Haute & Indianapolis R. R. At 19 he gave up the only hard work he ever did because of his mother's fears for his safety...
...French legation there. In two years, however, he was back in Paris, leader of the Six? whose modern musical renown grew from their union. For some critics even then Milhaud stood apart. Some professed to find a queer, shadowy beauty in his music. Others dismissed him as crude, trifling, freakish (he once set a florist's catalog to music for voice and chamber orchestra). Several important Berlin opinions sided with these last and with the ill-mannered boos which swept the Staatsoper after Christopher Columbus. The music was "thin," a "European scandal." All agreed that Claudel's play...