Word: modernistic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some years since Ferruccio Benvenuto Busoni, Italian master-pianist and modernist, startled the musical intelligenzia by advocating an entirely new musical scale. It was to be composed of quarter-tones, the pitch of each two adjacent tones being only half of what it is on a piano. It was then already noted that music played on a quarter-tone piano would only sound "out of tune"-and that this would be no novelty at all. Quarter-tone effects, it was added, were achieved by every Hawaiian guitar-player when he executed that lugubrious wailing slide along his seductively twanging strings...
...Rome, whom he regards as anti-Christ, but his alliance with the Bishop in the Heaton case was made necessary by a demand for more liberal lambs (or goats) to cast on the altar of his Searchlight. Out came the Searchlight (100,000 circulation) with screamer headline: HEATON, MODERNIST, CORNERED AND EXPOSED. The Bishop chuckled with glee. Frank Norris had given Heaton not more than six months to live in Texas?and Two-gun Norris gets...
...wonder whether I am a Modernist or Fundamentalist, especially as I come from New York, but you will not wonder nor make any mistake when you know that I come from what we call the right end of Brooklyn Bridge. Brooklyn, thank God, is still the City of Churches, and is still the City of Christian faith. Heresies originate in New York, not in Brooklyn...
...technique of rest; home-furnishing and color-values; art appreciation and a discriminating taste in literature; the history of music and musicians; psychology in graded lessons; poetry-the very best, but what people really do like, not what they should like from the standpoint of a technician or a modernist ... a university course in training for parenthood, which shall include the mental, moral and physical education of children from earliest infancy through the high school age, to be supplemented by graded reading courses and required theses...
There are now nearly 400,000 Christians in China, said he; but the Fundamentalist-Modernist controversy has added to the difficulties of presenting to the remaining 400,000,000 the Christian faith in its essential simplicity...