Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elliot Paul might be interested to know that modern Lindeners are still running true to form: "Lindeners were basically easygoing, but could become aroused over really important issues" [TIME, July...
Mounted on modern fixtures fully 10 to 12 feet higher than the old style lamps, the new lights are guaranteed to shine directly downards. Where there is the possibility that rays might shine into rooms, the lights have been shielded...
...York World's Fair and in the Library of Congress, and one-man shows in Detroit and Manhattan gave him a U.S. reputation. But things have not always gone well with him at home. He painted the Via Sacra on the walls of a modern church near Belo Horizonte, which Architect Oscar Niemeyer, friend and fellow Communist, designed. The archbishop refused to consecrate the church (TIME, May 13, 1946). Says Portinari: "The priests don't like my way of expressing, sacred things. They want Virgins that look like Ingrid Bergman and Christs like Robert Taylor...
...massive canvases which Allston prized most, and which his own age most admired-such ambitious subjects as The Angel Releasing St. Peter from Prison-seemed merely pretentious. Modern critics were impressed by the classic cleanliness of his drawings. They liked the grace and casual strength of his nudes (see cut), which Allston had sketched simply as studies for larger pictures. And they warmed to the easy, affectionate handling of portraits like that of William Ellery Channing and aging Benjamin West...
...they know it by nothing more than the spoken clarity and intense local atmosphere of Betjeman's verses. Among his prose pieces are two in which Oxford (Betjeman went to Magdalen College, where his tutor was Author C. S. Lewis) gets the smoothest and most thorough panning of modern times...