Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ballet Society, a new nonprofit company which had gone underground to experiment (for members only, who paid from $15 to $50 a season to look on), put on three premieres. The Minotaur was a well-conceived but not always well-executed marriage of classical myth, classical and modern dance (by John Taras), modern music (by Elliott Carter) and modern art (by Joan Junyer). In Zodiac, weak music and dance were overpowered by blinding costumes and sets. Highland Fling, in which sylphs run in & out of an interminable Scottish wedding to faintly Scottish and vaguely dissonant music, was an unhappy case...
...would be naive," says Mr. Hutchinson, "to expect in this day the God-intoxication of a 17th-Century Spinoza." If that is so, it must be doubted that religion in this day is due for a serious rebirth. For "God-intoxication," whether it is appropriate for modern man or not, is one of the things religion is all about...
Mysticism Today. In this, its real purpose, lies the real difficulty of religion for modern man. It is not to be taken up with reservations, lightly. The fact that most men do so take it is the reason it may fail them. For although religion is practical and can still do much good in the world, its strength at any period is measured by the number and quality of its mystics, of its "God-intoxicated...
Total weight (not counting Mr. Pentecost): 173 Ibs. The Hoppi-copter should "retail for little more than the better modern motorcycle." Helicopter experts would be more enthusiastic if they had seen it flying, but no performance records have been made available...
...last February the Council committee on the Salzburg enterprse had already secured the 30-room Cumberland castle, 40 miles from the city, as the site of the seminar. But through the continued efforts of the International Student service at Geneva, the more modern facilities of theatrical producer Mex Reinhardt's old home of Leopoldskron are now available...