Word: modernism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Were King, it will doubtless appear on every list of worthwhile films compiled by every self-appointed reviewing board in the U. S. But its makers have found not one fresh point of view, have included every available cliche of sword-&-cloak romance, plus the cliché of modern fiction, social significance. Result: so wooden that even the clashing of swords suggests a xylophone...
Born in Hungary and educated in Germany, Breuer brings to his works an international aspect, for he has traveled and practiced in Germany, England, Spain, Switzerland, and the Mediterranean countries. Based on thoroughly modern principles of design, his works, however, do not stand out like sore thumbs upon the landscape as do so many of the buildings of his contemporaries, for he has been able to incorporate into his style vernacular and traditional details which adapt the works to the surroundings in which they are placed...
...this reason that his works in America are regarded with keen interest. In this country he has a great respect for regional traditions and he is particularly interested in using existing American constructive methods as potentially modern devices. He should provide a great stimulus to architecture here and should produce a balance of adaptation and creation, that our architecture so sorely needs...
...Breuer's modern residential dwellings are masterpieces of their type. Lacking the stiffness and coldness of many Cubistic creations, they have movement, life, and fluidity which makes them extremely pleasing...
...Wells died July 2, 1938. From 1902 to 1906 he was an instructor in English, from 1903 to 1913 curator of modern English Literature in the College Library; then became successively assistant dean and acting dean of the college. From 1907 to 1913 he was secretary of the Harvard Alumni Association, and later became editor of the Alumni Bulletin. He received the British Military Cross during the World...