Word: modernism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last summer he had five log cabins built as an experiment. One is a recreation centre. Eight students live and study in each of the others. But students are spared Abraham Lincoln's handicaps. They study not by firelight but by electric light, and they have steam heat, modern plumbing, maid service. They go to classes in the Law School with other students, retire to their cabins for reading and bull sessions. By their fellow undergraduates, who went last week to their housewarming, Duke's Lincolns already have been nicknamed "future Presidents...
Jack and Jill, while a modern magazine for modern moppets, will not thrust aside the traditional Teddy-bear atmosphere and playroom gear of the child's World to reveal the razzle-dazzle streamlined machine age of rocketing Buck Rogers. Designed to tweak the curiosity of young readers or listeners will be stories giving a sound if rudimentary picture of the physical world and modern industry. Novel literary features include: vocational stories "appealing to the child's deep interest in the motorman, the fireman, the engineer, etc."; "Paper Tearing," a section "designed to satisfy a child's constant...
...meeting of the National Conference of Catholic Charities in Richmond, Va., James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney confessed that he had been a truant in his youth, and a persistent one: "To be a successful truant in a modern city requires considerable resourcefulness, as you people undoubtedly know...
Oscar Wilde (by Leslie & Sewell Stokes; produced by Norman Marshall). The most lurid of modern scandals, the story of Oscar Wilde has been reverberating between the lines of memoirs and biographies for 40 years. To picture the gross yet elegant, affected yet honest, repellent yet fascinating figure who plunged from dazzling fame to indelible disgrace, is to tackle a subject even more difficult than it is dramatic. Leslie & Sewell Stokes have treated the story in the only possible right way: they have told the plain, unvarnished truth...
According to Coyle, U.S. society is in the grip of a growing "organization of scarcity"-not because of actual productive lack, but because the oldtime concept of thrift has been subverted into a modern concept of saving. He points out that investors, in their desire to save, have pushed far more money into capital markets since 1919 than business could profitably employ. Rather, they should buy goods and services. (An old Coyle saying: "Saving for a rainy day only makes it rain...