Word: modernistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Protestants were ever more zealous in faith, more peppery in talk, more beloved by their followers, than the late Rev. Dr. John Gresham Machen, Presbyterian Fundamentalist of Philadelphia. A rough-&-tumble polemicist and theologian, Dr. Machen spent a lifetime fighting what he called the "Modernist Machine" government of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. He accused the Church of deserting its parent faith by questioning the divinity and resurrection of Christ, toning down essential doctrines ike the Blood Atonement. Result: Dr. Machen and his followers were read out of the Church, founded their own, which they called...
Young Russians today are not reminded that Lenin in 1922 permitted a number of prelates of the Russian Orthodox Church to form a new "Living Church," and to preach modernist, Marxian, non-super-natural doctrines while wearing the flowing robes and black boxlike mitres of the bishops of old Holy Russia. Both the Living Church and the Orthodox Church have existed since then at the pleasure of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin. The Government's policy has been to tolerate religion so long as there were people who wanted it, and at the same time to encourage the work...
Serge Prokofieff, famed Russian modernist composer, has a scunner against Boston. Seven years ago, when his Fourth Symphony was premièred there, supercilious Bostonians pooh-poohed it, critics even dared to suggest that it was written in too much of a hurry. Last week blond, lumbering Prokofieff, guest-conducting the Boston Symphony, evened the score. "If the public in Boston cannot understand my serious music," said irate Composer Prokofieff, "I'm going to give them simple things." One of the simple things was his Peter and the Wolf, a musical fairy tale written to teach the various sounds...
Unlike many modernist composers, 42-year-old Hindemith has had wide experience as a practical musician, is a virtuoso on the viola. After running away from home at the age of eleven, he earned his own living playing in dance bands, cafés and cinema orchestras. A diligent student, he spent his spare time plowing through courses at the Frankfurt Conservatory, studying violin, viola and composition. In 1915 he became head violinist of the Frankfurt Opera House, rose to the post of conductor. Among German composers his pre-Hitler reputation was second only to that of aging Richard Strauss...
...Gwalior invited him to show his paintings at the palace, Upshot of that was that Artist Yawalkar went to Paris last year, then to London, and this week, in Manhattan, had his first big one-man show. It was also the first show of any importance by an Indian modernist...