Word: modernist
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...Charles Gore, 78, retired Bishop of Oxford; of influenza and pleurisy; in London. A famed Anglo-Catholic, he long sought rapprochement between Roman Catholics and Anglicans. Bishop Gore proposed a federation of churches with the Pope as First Bishop, but he balked at Papal Infallibility. Though no Modernist, he scoffed at Jonah's Whale...
Same page size (11¼ x 14") as FORTUNE, printed on similar paper stocks (antique and coated), with colored cartographs and modernist photographs in the FORTUNE manner of stylized detail, it even carries its name and volume number on the binding in white as FORTUNE does...
From timid beginnings the Carnegie show has now evolved into what is probably the most important showing of modernist pictures in the U. S. The Carnegie International no longer considers itself an agency for the discovery of unknown talent. Director Homer Saint-Gaudens and his associates have decided that there are plenty of other organizations dedicated to that purpose, that their job is to show the citizens of Pittsburgh the work of the best artists that they can assemble. This year in an exhibition of nearly 500 pictures only 30 places were left open for unsolicited works...
Usually classified as a modernist, Conductor Reiner gave in his first Stadium concert a program mostly classical. However, he told interviewers of an interest in such modern Americans as John Alden Carpenter, Aaron Copland, Roger H. Sessions and George Gershwin, who, he says, is "the only U. S. composer to have a popular following in Europe." And in his fourth concert, Conductor Reiner-who once studied for the Hungarian bar-gave a program composed of the works of four living musicians (Stravinsky, Kodaly, Ravel, Henry Hadley), two dead within the century (Debussy, Goldmark...
...last week largely to the critics and dealers of the New York art world. Shrewdly drawn pastels in good color showed Colyumist Heywood Broun towering like a huge bundle of dirty linen over a frail typewriter; Critic Royal Cortissoz (Herald Tribune) scowling over his goatee and cigar at a modernist painting; Murdock Pemberton (New Yorker) bilious in a blue suit; dimple-chinned Henry McBride (Sun) delicately balancing a teacup; and dozens more...