Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...born Lady Astor, trying to raise ?400,000 in London for a settlement for international university women, denounced Hollywood's preoccupation with sex in "this modern striptease age." Said she: "I think it's terrible the way women are used for glamour ... Educated women are far more important to the world...
Like most modern artists, Bacon is more concerned with technique than subject matter; textures trouble him particularly. "One of the problems," he mused last week, "is to paint like Velasquez but with the texture of a hippopotamus skin." That problem alone, as even a fool could plainly see, might require the destruction of another 700 canvases...
Williams' campaigns often lose him subscriptions (he gets many letters threatening "to come down there and hang you"), but he gets so many new ones that the Farmer is already outgrowing the modern plant which Williams built for $100,000 in Montgomery last year. The Farmer carries little national advertising, yet made $55,000 last year. Since he has become a businessman himself, Williams takes a more kindly, if still somewhat scornful, attitude toward business than he did in the New Deal days. "Making money," says he, "is the easiest thing I ever tried...
...English post called Goethe "the last of the worldly poets" who sought to achieve universality. Spender emphasized the German poet-scientist's success at avoiding the rising tide of subjectivism which has since engulfed modern poetry by involving himself in activities of the outer world...
...father, Arthur Twining Hadley, was Yale's 13th president, between 1899 and 1920, and the first non-clerical president of the university. He is known as the "father of modern Yale...