Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...talents. "The Medium" is by no means revolutionary or even experimental in form like "Four Saints" or "Mother of Us All," but the music is exactly right--no more nor less--for its frightening story. Menotti is a composer who can be described only as appealing: his music uses modern devices, manages to attract the listener without letting him out of the grip of the opera in toto. He uses chiefly a semi-recitative style, but he proves conclusively his ability to write an aria with an exceptionally lovely song which he gives the daughter near the close...
Critics have been railing at the Metropolitan Opera for ages countless for not putting on worthwhile modern works, but in their attacks they have failed to consider a potent question: is the Met fit to present any opera except the 19th century warhorses on which it concentrates? To this operagoer, anyway, the current production of "The Medium" answers that question with a strong negative...
...imperative that some fresh and sober thought be given to the meaning of the separation of church and state. . . . To a very considerable extent, the Protestant mood has come to reflect the modern secularist attitude, which tends progressively to isolate religion from the more significant areas of the common life. Thus, appeal to the separation of church and state readily becomes an argument for silencing the voice of religion in the political sphere...
Conger taught Winant the requirements of modern warfare-manpower, factory output, raw materials, foodstuffs, and the then almost unknown science of psychological warfare. Winant spent two summers in the Shenandoah Valley, going over Stonewall Jackson's campaigns. Later he paid his own way to Paris and enlisted as a private in the A.E.F. (He came home a squadron commander in the Air Service...
...past decade, James Laughlin IV, rebellious great-grandson of the co-founder of Jones & Laughlin Steel, has subsidized a publishing house (New Directions) that has scorned the usual commercial limitations of the U.S. book business. Ready to face financial losses, Laughlin has put out cheap reprints of modern classics (e.g., Alain-Fournier's The Wanderer), little-known but excellent European books and works by young American writers which no other publisher would take a chance...