Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Freedom for the Village. To the modern eye, bloodshot from staring at much harsher art, the oils of Sloan's "Ashcan" period look purely poetic. He once clambered to the top of the Washington Square arch to proclaim Greenwich Village an independent republic, and his paintings look like dream-glimpses of such a republic-familiar, but never unpleasantly so. He crowded his painted world with plump ladies and children, always in the best of spirits and often partly undressed. And over them he sometimes succeeded in weaving a deep sparkle of color which few U.S. contemporaries could touch...
Leading scientists, educators, and research men will gather at the Harvard Club of Boston tonight to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the Lawrence Scientific School, a Harvard institution which, in its time, fathered many of the techniques of modern scientific and general education...
Right now the Laffmovie is showing among other delicacies, a cartoon about a sneezing weasel and a Buster Keaton classic, vintage 1934. The former does, however, contain some modern verse. There are two lines...
Reached last night in his North Station lair, a minor mogul of the B.&M. admitted he didn't know how long Snotrains have been running;"I couldn't even give you a judicious estimate. But let me toll you one thing, they're all equipped with luxurious modern air conditioned cars, and it only costs $3.25 round trip to North Conway...
Wright has made a habit of confounding engineers with buildings which looked plain foolish and turned out to be foolproof. He scorns the cold functionalism of most modern architecture. What makes him a revered revolutionary at 78 is his insistence that buildings are not just "machines for living...