Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congratulations on a very timely and significant cover story [TIME, Dec. 29]. What you have said about the inadequacy of modern art because of its conspicuous lack of faith or tradition could readily be applied to all the arts and to almost every phase of modern life. ... It is unfortunate that "modern" men have ceased thinking of themselves in terms of "participants in an eternal mystery," and have lost "the shepherd's compassion...
...Doesburg display, sponsored by the Graduate School of Design and the Boston Institute of Modern Art, was arranged by Mine. Van Doesburg and is its last public exhibition...
Anxiety, Mowrer said, is not the result of too little self-indulgence, but of too much; not of over-restraint and inhibition, but of irresponsibility, guilt and immaturity. "Above all," Mowrer concluded, ". . . the ethical accomplishment of untold past generations, as imbedded in the conscience of modern men & women, is not a stupid, malevolent archaic incubus, but a challenge and guide for the individual in his quest for self-fulfillment and harmonious integration." (For a psychologist, it was almost a psalm...
...well-organized trend toward such sumptuous burial rites has increased ever since the development of modern embalming.* The trend has increasingly set ministers' teeth on edge. To many, such a long-faced travesty on Christian burial seems just as offensive as the frank vulgarity of the District of Columbia's "merry mortician," whose new calendar (see cut) proclaims "Beautiful Bodies by Chambers." In this week's Christian Century, Methodist Minister Edwin T. Randall tells of a community in which the ministers have organized to do something about...
...kind of Hippocratic oath which would state as their objective the doctoring of democracy. "The empiricism of the past may be a sufficient guide for the masters of a police state," he said, "but an open society with our ideals requires other instruments and a wider understanding of modern man." Having listened to Dr. Conant and his worrisome conscience, the scientists turned with relief to discussion of objective activities (devoid of "value judgments"), an atmosphere in which they are at home and comfortable...