Word: futuristic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...central feature of the projected development will be a new home for the Metropolitan Opera, to face Fifth Avenue, between 49th & 50th Streets. On the avenue front, there will be a magnificent esplanade. Viaducts, designed in the futurist style of structural engineering, will take care of automobile traffic on different levels, eliminating the usual traffic jam at the Opera gates on important nights...
Aaron Douglas, race futurist, contributes striking illustrations to Trombones-black figures in planes of primeval shade...
...Paris, Futurist composers have written parts for new instruments, equipped their orchestras with droners, groaners, gobblers, ululators, strideurs, éclateurs, bourdonneurs, glouglouteurs, hululeurs. Critics commend the crepiteur for the clarity of his saccades...
...modernist? But no, I am not a modernist. That is a debauched term (mot compromisé). The modernists set out to shock the bourgeoisie, and they only succeed in pleasing the Bolsheviki. My music is neither 'futurist' nor 'passéist,' but the music of today...
...each nation. But when Mr. Murphy's work of art arrived, it was found there would be almost no wall space left for other American artists. The painting was, therefore, hung over the grand entrance staircase, the most conspicuous position in the building. M. Paul Signac, a futurist of the most independent kind and President of the Independent Salon, promptly took exception to this action and resigned, followed by his colleagues, the Vice President and the Commissaire General. Consternation reigned. Many were the friends of both factions who attempted a reconciliation. Gerald Murphy calmly refused to have his picture...