Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Haggling & Tempting. To protect the stomachs of modern readers, Todd reproduces only details of Fuseli's more obscene drawings, made for private consumption. The elaborately coiffeured heads of his procuresses and whores, haggling and tempting, and Fuseli's needle-sharp "domestic" caricatures show him to have been a better draftsman than painter...
...high-strung standards of modern psychiatry, perfectly "normal" people are fairly rare. One top authority gave the solemn opinion last week that in the whole U.S. there are only about 1,000,000 such folks, i.e., those who have no anxieties, no fears, no strong prejudices, no attractive vices. Everyone else he classifies as being, in great or small degree, on the abnormal side...
During the early years of Americas's development, individual initiative and enterprise were more important than group action, he said, but modern society demands group action as the intellectual and social spearheads of development...
...team there was a basic unanimity; all ten shared his liking for strict functionalism. Among them: Brazil's brilliant young (39) Oscar Niemeyer, and France's Le Corbusier (real name, Charles Edouard Jeanneret), who invented functionalism's favorite phrase when he described modern houses as "machines for living...
...modern mother we agree...