Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manhattan's classy, glassy Museum of Modern Art owns seven of his pictures, but except for his preoccupation with subject matter that is not conventionally beautiful, there was never anything "modern" about Hopper...
...Much of modern entertainment is meagre, vulgar, and meretricious. Its primary effect is the debasement of taste, the creation of false standards of value, the blunting of the capacity to find strength and happiness in the ordinary course of life. Literature is public property, can become a common body of experience. . . . Modern youth are moved, not by ambition, but by anxiety. The great stories recreate powerful examples of human thought and conduct-show principles in action...
...editors' aim was to sweep the modern world "with the same searching gaze which the Spectator turned on manners of 1 8th Century England." Pacific Spectator had a lot of territory to cover, and no Addison & Steele to help cover it. Since the days of Bret Harte's Overland Monthly, the Western U.S. has had no highbrow magazine of any weight. To help fill the vacuum, 23 colleges had joined as sponsors - "the largest Western college league ever organized," cracked one reviewer, "to support anything but athletics." Last week Pacific Spectator began its second year...
...medieval bards sang of Tristan and Iseult as huge, cloudy symbols of high romance; later storytellers (Swinburne, Wagner, Tennyson, E. A. Robinson et al.) further enriched (or corrupted) the tale with new ideas and idioms. Now the French poet-moviemaker, Jean Cocteau, has handsomely reset the legend in modern dress. His title, The Eternal Return, is the term Nietzsche gave to the mournfully romantic doctrine of endless historical repetition. The Nietzschean note tolls through the film like a sunken bell...
...book form in 1883, is one of the western world's most popular books. But the high, old tottering voice of literary criticism has either ignored it or rated it as the literary equivalent of scooters and bubble gum. Now, Cornell Lecturer David Daiches (Poetry in the Modern World, The Novel in the Modern World), like Stevenson an Edinburgh expatriate, has made an attempt to increase his countryman's stature with a careful, interesting, but rather timid analysis of Stevenson's works...