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...Continued Bishop Furse: ". . . He is hurting the feelings ... of thousands of people throughout the world with language such as his reference to the statue of the Madonna as a 'female and child.' " Answered Bishop Barnes: "I stand as a prominent member of what is known as the Modernist Movement. That movement seeks to be loyal to the Church but it also seeks to be loyal to TRUTH." Said still another Bishop: "So do we all." Thereupon the Bishops returned their attentions to the business of the day. Unexpected and most disturbing was the point-blank question...
Although Dr. Thomas T. Shields, Trustee-President of (Baptist) Des Moines University won, last fortnight, his re-election and whelming trustee-support in his fight against dismissed University President Harry C. null one thing worried him. When he expelled President Wayman because he seemed to be a modernist, Des Moines students had thrown eggs, rocks. (TIME, May 20.) The police had to interfere to shield Dr. Shields and the University's loyal-to-Shields Secretary, Miss Edith Rebman. Now Dr. Shields had to return to Des Moines from a Baptist Bible Union convention in Buffalo and he was worried...
Young Germany sees the U. S. singing. Composer Ernst Krenek chose a U. S. Negro jazzer for his Jonny Spielt Auf. Another modernist, Kurt Weill, has found inspiration for a new cantata in the Lindbergh flight. Written for the July Festival in Baden-Baden, a drowsy watering place in the Black Forest which has found itself the seat of radical musical experiment, the composer also intends The Lindbergh Flight for radio consumption. The cantata was publicly described last week for the first time...
Architects are often heard scoffing at interior decorators. They feel that their own diligent study of ornament and design is a better basis for indoor work than the fancies of a chintzy enthusiast. In- teresting therefore is the exhibition, now at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, of modernist interiors conceived by seven architects, a landscape architect and a ceramic worker...
...Modernist furniture and decor is replete with berserk zigzagging, nightmare shapes and gaudiness. These architects, however, with the taste bred of academic training, create in a dulcet and tempered mood. The results are fresh without being freakish. But, due to the cost of materials and the scarcity of fine modernist designers, they are also expensive...