Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addition to the money grants, members of the University faculty are contributing copies of their own books in an effort to build up a permanent library at the Seminar's Leopoldskron headquarters. Heller announced that C. Crane Brinton '19. McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History. P. O. Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature Clyde K. M. Blackholm, professor of Anthropology, and Summer H. Slichter, Lament University Professor, have taken part in the movement...
...making the announcement, President Conant declared, "It is inevitable that the costs of education must increase. Harvard has resisted this trend as long as possible. The financial problems of the Medical School and the School of Dental Medicine are complicated by the fact that modern medical and dental teaching requires expensive laboratory and clinical facilities...
...would be hard to find, in this day of soggy prose and involuted criticism, another modern essayist who yields such constant pleasure. (She wrote, said E. M. Forster, with "inspired breathlessness.") Unlike so many American critics who seem intent on smothering their readers with erudition, Virginia Woolf wrote as if she were conversing with friends. To read her essays at one sitting is too much of a good thing; they then seem a bit boneless and soft, their smoothness too consistently stylized. But taken one at a time, as they were written to be read, they are rare works...
This odd truce is upset by the parachute arrival of Adrian Bullivant, a British officer and even more of a weakling than most weak young men in modern British novels. He has come to instruct the 23rd Corps to blow up a dam in behalf of the Allied armies, but once his foggy mind grasps the impossibility of such a project he settles down to enjoy life...
When the public and the critics decided back in 1931 that they liked "Mourning Becomes Electra," they were welcoming the most ambitions, and perhaps even the most dramatically effective effort ever seen in the American theater. The play, a modern version of Aeschylus' resounding and grisly trilogy, "The Oresteia," lasted five hours, during which there were four violent deaths, a number of suggestions of incest, and scarcely a letup in the terrible tension. Now comes the movie. No concessions have been made to the public's sentimentality, and the compression of the film to two and a half hours makes...