Word: modernists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps if T.S. Eliot '10 resided in a Harvard house today, he would use a similar indicator--tea bags. The great modernist bard might have found the most intriguing daily reading not in any of his text books or any college publication, but on the tags of Salada tea bags...
Other early complaints centered on Updike's refusal to tinker with fiction in the approved post-modernist fashion. He recalls, "I certainly did feel left out of the black-humor thing when it was heavily publicized, because it did sound like an awful lot of fun, and they were getting all this serious attention...
...world; no small irony, since this son of a New York State country tanner struggled his whole life against pauperism. Later he would be considered rather a fuddy-duddy compared with the abstract expressionists, a generation behind him. He was, in that way, a victim of orthodox modernist thinking-which tended^ to suppose that his art had not "evolved" beyond its representational purposes, toward abstraction. In the late 1950s, when Avery was 70 and at the peak of his talent, his prices were about one-tenth of Pollock's. (They still are, but Pollock's now cost millions...
...committed modernist à la française, Avery treated the figure as a strictly formal affair: patch for the dress or bathing suit, patch for face, no detail. In the process he often produced a curious scragginess. The parts of the bodies rarely connect well, and have noli me tangere written all over them. Sometimes his lumpish ladies on the beach suggest Thurber. In Matisse, no matter how reduced the outline may be or how schematic the stroke of the crayon that says "eye," "breast" or "hip," one can almost always sense the live weight of a body, its organic...
Walser's apocalyptic vision stole a march on the many literary ones that were to follow in this century. So did he also help invent what later became a modernist stereotype: the passive, clerkly man who must find ways of passing time while waiting for the end. In The Job Application, Walser portrays a degree of diffidence that borders on catatonia: "I know that your good firm is large, proud, old, and rich, thus I may yield to the pleasing supposition that a nice, easy, pretty little place would be available, into which, as into a kind of warm...