Word: modernistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jonas Lie still mistrusts too much force in other men's painting. At the Art Students' League he lately fought a wordy battle with grey-thatched President John Sloan, another painter who can argue, over the propriety of inviting George Grosz, potent German modernist, to teach at the League. George Grosz has had quite as sound academic training as Jonas Lie, but since the War he has lost interest in fishing boats, cows, rocks. An embittered critic of the bourgeoisie, he does biting caricatures on canvas of bloated politicians, policemen, militarists, ?subjects appalling to genteel Jonas Lie. The upshot...
...discussed their attempts to rescue the Modern Man. Chief feature of the conference was a one-act play presented by the British delegates, in which the Modern Man is approached by a Fundamentalist with an enormous Bible, a pompous Anglo-Catholic, a cordial member of the Buchman Groups, a Modernist who cuts most of his Bible into little bits. None succeeds in rousing Modern Man from his sleep. At last comes a Barthian. He is successful...
...International Style as opposed to "modernist" architecture eschews all decoration and ornament. "Functionalism" (a word overworked ad nauseam) is its watchword. Such beauty as their buildings possess is dependent on fine proportion of individual units, clever use of color, and the technically perfect use of materials. (Cement is sometimes poured in glass-lined forms to give it a marble-like polish.) Light is its fetish. Houses look more and more like aquariums. The four apostles of the International Style are two Germans, a Dutchman and a French Swiss, as follows...
...Punch & Judy theatres were set up by tail-coated, gold-buttoned lackeys. The contestants appeared: a M. Jane, a M. Robert Désarthis. M. Jane, a modernist, introduced into his performance such persons as Charlie Chaplin and Bicot, the French cinema comedian. MM. les Sénateurs and their children would have none of him. Puppeteer Désarthis, an entrepreneur who had already had many a successful season farther south in the Pare de Montsouris, triumphed...
...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...