Word: modernism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sargent is to be congratulated for solving so happily an extremely difficult problem. The khaki costume of the modern soldier lends itself to an orderly and interesting arrangement, and the necessity of filling two panels of rather difficult shapes with symbolic compositions, when no definite subjects were suggested to the artists, required the highest order of imaginative creation. Though individuals may criticize details of the composition and symbolism, none can deny that the artist has been extremely successful in his main purpose, which was to produce a great decorative composition aptly conceived and executed from the point of view...
Although the exhibition is not arranged in chronological order there are fabrics from Egypt and Peruvia dating from the pre-Christian era, as well as examples of the work of modern times...
...modern science has given to modern Albums a means of description and narration which has also been aptly capitalized by the present daily press. There are pictures, more technically perhaps, cuts in the modern class compendiums, and the graduate who journeys to Singapore can refresh himself of an evening with views of the Yard, of the crew captain, and even of himself before his hair fell. Externals again perhaps but they are elements of importance in the memories which give color to a college education...
There was a time before the glories of modern printing had penetrated to the lives of even the humblest inhabitants, when each man wrote in his own hand a short autobiography to be filed with others in his class. Like other matters in and around Cambridge when Harvard had an enrolment of five hundred or thereabouts, there was more of the personal touch, more perhaps of humanism than is contained in modern Albums. And the man who had slowly developed from the inside could leave a record fully as illuminating to posterity as he who found his personality by contact...
Most obvious of the indications of the lack of sympathy between this author and the modern world is his vocabulary. It includes the frequent use of archaisms and unusual words such as "rathe," "sonant," "unimpasted," which are not found in the average abridged dictionary. The attempt to recover the idiom of another age so deliberate that the writer cannot have realized the many-times repeated truth that the Elizabethtn poets were not works with "thees" and "dosts" and "wilts." Among their contemporaries the words were in good and familiar usage, and a writer three hundred years later is not justified...