Word: modernist
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...shamefully incidental scrap in which the evangelical church is engaged," said Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick (Modernist) last week. On the contrary, Rollin Lynde Hartt (Modernist) after a trip from coast to coast, reports that the row has just begun, that Fundamentalists everywhere are planning a real fight to kill Modernism...
...island in mid-Atlantic." He is trying to divest them of mere imitativeness, of the veneer and decadence of a routine civilization. As a result the children produce works of unspoiled vigor, naive insight and not a little humor. They are singularly untroubled by the isms and vagaries of modernist Art. There are fancy and fantasy, of course, but all with a highly personalized expression...
Eugene Savage (Ferargil Galleries), decorative young modernist, uses classic themes and medieval methods (gold background), makes his own frames. There is a small copy of his Expulsion (from Eden) which won the Thomas B. Clark Prize at the last National Academy...
...curiously (and unfortunately for his spiritual health), the Fundamentalist is the first to rush into argument. He is the aggressor because he feels, with considerable justification, that the Modernist should get out of the old church; but he can only be ousted by being haled before an ecclesiastical court...
...Modernist does not seek compromise; he seeks tolerance...