Word: modernist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soviet Russia, sudden key changes in the musical party line have put such living composers as Dmitri Shostakovich in & out of the official doghouse. In modernist days, some Soviet critics denounced Peter Ilich Tschaikowsky as a sentimental bourgeois. The Soviet line is now 100% melodic. Last week the Government sweetly celebrated the 100th anniversary of Melodist Tschaikowsky's birth...
...Modernist. Raymond Leslie Buell, onetime head of the Foreign Policy Association, does not oversimplify or resort to rhetoric. A seasoned student of World affairs, he has lately acquired, as editor of FORTUNE'S Round Tables, a firm grasp of domestic, economic and social problems. His book is a methodical 457-page study of the U. S. and the whole modern world. Finally he arrives at a detailed program. If Charles Beard's merit is irony, Buell's is intellectual thoroughness...
...Contrast between Beard and Buell is irresistibly like the contrast between the Fundamentalist and the Modernist points of view. The stern, old-fashioned eloquence is on one side; the massing of evidence on the other. Fundamentalist Beard has a simple image of the world. He writes of international relations as a matter of occasional notes between diplomats of remote nations. Modernist Buell writes of international relations in an era when radio propaganda has supplanted polite diplomatic exchanges. He envisions the world as that shrunken globe seen by Howard Hughes as he flew around it in 91 hours, as Pan-American...
...modernist who sympathizes with the average man's horror of most modernistic building is Walter Dorwin Teague,an ace industrial designer who last week published a discursive, philosophical book (Design This Day-Harcourt Brace-$6) on the present and future of design. To Designer Teague the industrial Revolution has been the bloodiest revolution...
Similarly contrasted were speeches on the show's first night by Traditionalist William Adams Delano and Modernist George Howe...