Word: modernist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fundamentalism cropped up again last week when the Presbyterian General Assembly, meeting in St. Louis, voted down famed Modernist Henry Sloane Coffin for moderator, chose in his stead, by 461-to-404, Dr. Herbert Booth Smith, conservative pastor of America's second-largest Presbyterian church, Immanuel in Los Angeles...
...modernist artists have tried to compete with nature. Most of them stick to simple subjects like barns, epicene nudes, apples and bunches of flowers, avoid such complex natural spectacles as sunsets, stampedes, beautiful women, the Grand Canyon. One crusty, white-bearded old U. S. artist who has been hot on nature's heels for more than 50 years is Manhattan's William Robinson Leigh. He has tracked old Mother Nature from East Africa to the U. S. Southwest, has painted more postcardy scenery than most men see in a lifetime. So chromolithographically faithful are Painter Leigh...
...Weber, in spite of the fact that he was the first U. S. modernist, and is still going strong, is bearish on the whole issue. Says he: "Modern art is a barren field whose soil needs spiritual humus to turn it over for the planting of new seeds...
...friend of Jazzman Benny Goodman, with whom he plays clarinet-violin-piano works by another friend, Modernist Béla Bartók, Fiddler Szigeti says of jazz: "It has raised the standards of efficiency in playing music. It is much easier to get away with a slovenly performance of Poet and Peasant than with a well-written jazz piece. Jazz brought to popular music what the impressionist brought to painting -more colors and more care in using them. I think jazz has sharpened the receptivity of the listener...
...methods and subjects used by cameramen of the past 97 years, the exhibition contained prints from hoary calotype* and wet-plate negatives, documentaries by the Civil War's camerace Matthew Brady, sentimental Victorian landscapes, modern news photographs, dadaist shadowgraphs by Hungarian-born Moholy-Nagy and U. S. Modernist Man Ray. Surprised visitors found that some of photography's finest workmanship was very old stuff...