Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their opinions of the value of the existing Harvard language requirements. When the reporters gathered later in the day to tabulate their results and to compare the expressions of opinion they had, heard striking varieties of attainment and of sentiment were revealed. Former travellers in Europe, concentrators in modern languages, Latin scholars, and the like were factors in a complexity which made definite conclusions as to the efficacy of the Harvard language requirements difficult...
Upwards of 40 men felt that they had an advanced knowledge of at least one foreign language and a fairly good knowledge of another. Many of these admitted that they were either concentrating in modern languages or that they were honor students. About an equal number were willing to stake themselves on an adequate knowledge of one language but confessed to ignorance of a second. A few said that they knew both French and German slightly but neither well enough to read them with ease or pleasure. At least a dozen of the Seniors interviewed declared that their linguistic capacities...
...Britons mourn because they have 'lost $250,000,000 in antique art.' They ought to rejoice because they have gained 250,000,00 modern dollars and use some of that money to develop or revive art in their own country. They have plenty of art left, in museums, and it doesn't matter whether Raphael's Madonna and Child stays in the private house of Lady Desborough, or moves to Millionaire John Snooks' home in America. In either case it is wasted...
...Significance. André Maurois in-itroduces Author Green as "the best novelist of his generation." Others have declared him Balzacian, and murmured of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, for his uncanny realism is not of the modern self-conscious variety. Master of detail-heavy odor of wistaria over the garden wall, crunch of wheels on the gravel, pebbles shaping the brook into a plaited pattern-no single word is superfluous, and each image blends into an unforgettable whole...
Neurotics are the favorite topic of dreary modern fiction. Bilby's Doll is a neurotic whose hallucinations are logically built upon the terrific shock of her childhood. But the lore of her witchcraft, and the superstitions of her New England neighbors, lift her out of the psychiatric laboratory into the worthy realm of fiction. Author Forbes formalizes her fantastics with a prose borrowed in part from the 17th century when witches were common subject of puritanical debate...