Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oxford are lecturing on economics and economic politics; Miss Elspeth Davies of Sarah Lawrence, Neal A. McDonald of the New Jersey College for Women, and Benjamin F. Wright, professor of Government, are in charge of the government field; James Johnson Sweeney, former director of the New York Museum of Modern Art, is lecturing on various phases of American art and architecture; anthropologist Margaret Mead is handling the field of sociology; and Richard Schlatter of Rutgers is giving a course on American historians...
...almost as familiar a London tourist-haunt as Madame Tussaud's waxworks. Last week, the Tate was celebrating its 50th anniversary with a crowd-pulling show from its own storerooms, which boast Britain's best collection of English painting (including a fine group of Blakes) and of modern...
Puckish John Knewstub Rothenstein, the Tate's present director, is a man given to pastel-colored shirts and the adjective "delicious." He is all-out for modern art. During the war, Rothenstein packed most of the Tate's treasures off to rural hiding places, then busied himself with the acquisition of over 600 new works, including some by British Modernists Graham Sutherland, Henry Moore, John Piper. The gallery was bombed (only six of its 34 rooms are usable now), but attendance has climbed to more than double prewar. Rothenstein realizes that much of what he buys will soon...
...babel of the modern press and radio, Hocking thought, was hardly a free and open encounter; "public debate" had become a euphemism. He doubted that many readers tried or even wanted to hear all sides of an issue. He asked: "How many editors . . . cite each other to open debate; what Hearst has flung down the gauntlet to what New York Times-or vice versa? . . . I fear it is simply not the case that in the profuse and unordered public expression of today the best views tend to prevail...
...ideal church Burkhart writes about is at once as modern as science, sociology and psychiatry can make it and as all-pervasive in the community as the church of the Middle Ages. In the "beloved fellowship" of Christians living, working and playing together, he sees the all-important matrix of spiritual life, and within this group relationship he apportions the church's liturgy, recreation, social work, preaching and prayer. His blueprint for his True Church is not mere speculation; many of the specifications have been met in his own grey limestone, suburban First Community Church of Columbus...