Word: modernist
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...wife wanted that the children should be proud of me, so I am content," said he last week. "My neighbors tell me the critics are troubled whether I be impressionist, modernist or classicist, but these things I do not understand...
Said fiery Modernist Howe: "In America with its vast resources of natural and human energy in constant volcanic eruption, cities, factories, warehouses and elevators have been thrown up in towering accidental masses, as exciting as the Rocky Mountains and also as crude and little subject to esthetic control. In Europe, less disorderly but with no more discretion, most of the new districts can evoke no emotion but blank despair, and even Paris has been partially saved only by the pride of its dead tyrants. . . . The modern movement is a conscious effort to direct and canalize the stupendous energy of modern...
...return to the S. S. Van Dine ghoulish extravaganzas William Powell, while easily surpassing his understudy, Basil Rathbone, who appeared as Philo Vance in the "Bishop Murder Case", gives a distinctly inferior performance to his first appearance as the modernist detective. His suavity is the direct cause of objection: ennui sits so heavily upon him that it finally spreads to the spectator and the latter at last doesn't give a--(censored on Sundays) just who did make off with the entirely nasty stockbroker: he's done away with and that's the important point. Mr. Powell sits and sits...
France's Poet-Ambassador Paul Claudel let it be known last week in Washington that, inspired by conversations with Producer Max Reinhardt of Austria, he has written an opera libretto, based on the life of Christopher Columbus, for music by Darius Milhaud, French modernist. First performance: this month, in Berlin...
...culture were chiefly expressed by means of studied photography -arty shots of ballet dancing; a mechanistic fragment of a Ford factory; "a brilliant and precise camera study of a barbed wire fence post." Also there were essays and stories in the modernist manner...