Word: modernism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...poetry in any period always has countless little counter-currents and side eddies that are interesting if only to point the contrast with the dominant tendency. "Thalia" is very much one of these off-shoots, and this in spite of the publishers' claim that it is "fresh and modern in its point of view...
...great obligation to their chosen title?the Venice pictured would be far less familiar to a gondolier than it would to an oldtime Keith vaudeville subscriber. There are some tricornered hats, languid rhythms, a Benvenuto Cellini fantasy, but by far the most electric portions of the entertainment occur in modern two-a-day tempo and setting...
Stepping Out, by Elmer Harris, is billed serenely as a "new and modern comedy," a nice distinction which, regrettably, is wasted. A farce dealing in less clean than lavatory fashion with the awkward infidelities of two married satyrs among Hollywood lupanars, Stepping Out is neither new nor modern. When, in fact, the pretty specimens with whom Tubby Smith and Tom Martin have been misconducting themselves appear to demand blackmail, Tubby produces for the emergency a wisecrack which, though good, resembles many that have been heard before. "I thought you were nice girls," he complains, "not good, but nice...
...next few weeks she will inevitably look long and often at one of the largest presents, an oil painting. She will see a quartet of dark, florescent women dressed in bouffant gowns, standing amid blossomy garlands. Handsomely, romantically they represent types of Mexican womanhood? Spanish, Indian, Mestiza (Spanish-Indian), modern Mexican...
...Archduke John Salvator who disappeared into the Pacific; the Crown Prince Rudolf mysteriously and horribly a suicide; and finally the next heir apparent, Franz Ferdinand, fatefully killed at Serajevo. But these dramatics are insignificant facts in Author Redlich's account of the final struggle between time-honored legitimacy and modern nationalism?Francis Joseph granting his people universal suffrage and a parliament, and then stultifying the gesture by reserving his absolute power...