Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Roscoe Pound, Hon. '20, Dean of the Harvard Law School, will address the Boston Ethical Society of Repertory Hall, 264 Huntington Avenue, Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. His subject will be "Social Conditions and Modern Life...
...last of the Whiting concert will be given at 8.15 o'clock's this evening in Paine Hall. This is the fifth such program of the year, and the subject is "En positions of Classical and Modern Chamber Music...
Whoever selected the examples shown apparently deliberately omitted the most extreme phases of modern French art; there is little suggestion of cubism or expressionism or dadaism. For this reason the pictures represent rather a general undercurrent of taste that has remained definitely French, persisting through various vicissitudes, absorbing much of the point of view of the extreme experimenters and revolutionists, but still maintaining its characteristic lightness and deftness of touch. Thus the influence of the great innovators is obvious in much of the painting, now Renoir, now Cezanne, now Matisse or Rousseau or some other modernist; but beneath...
...change for the better is evident not only on the cover of the Lampoon; parts of its interior have been renovated, and to its improvement Modern Tintypes has a chance at some fine nonsense, but falls a little flat as compared with the representation of Utopia, which whimsicality is perfect. This reader will not forget the delightful idea of the Strata eating an English Muffin. The drawing of the subway rush demonstrates the usefulness of lithographers' crayon which Lampy should not overlook in the future...
WRITTEN in a biographical age notable chiefly for its iconoclasm, "Kit Carson" is just the sort of book one would expect from a former Rhodes Scholar, a native of the West, and a faculty member of the University of Oklahoma. Stanley Vestal takes all that is laudable in the modern method of biography--its colloquial style, eye for the dramatic, disrespect for mythology and Thompsonesque patriotism without falling into the pitfalls typical of tabloid research and the worship of sex appeal...