Word: modernizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since 1930 the director of London's illustrious Tate Gallery has been bright-eyed, snowy-haired James Bolivar Manson, a cherubic oldster whose talents as a mimic are highly prized among his friends. As director of the Tate, Mr. Manson built up its modern collection but has shown something less than a devouring interest in the minutiae of modern art. Last year the French painter. Maurice Utrillo, ten years a sober man, brought a libel suit against him and the gallery (TIME, Jan. 18. 1937) and last month won a public apology for having been listed in a Tate...
...wrote as follows: "Historical heroes-leaders who have received the loudest acclaim from biographers have been warriors who led their people to conquest or freedom. Their dominant characteristics have been many-selfish Napoleon, ambitious Alexander, patriotic Washington, bigoted Cromwell. Would any of these be recognized as leaders in our modern prisons? I think not. They would be known within the walls as 'handshakers,' 'administration men,' and 'rats...
...disastrous as The Merry Wives in exactly the opposite way. Underplayed to the vanishing point, it left the audience wondering whether they had lost their hearing or the actors had lost their voices. With the pace a solemn largo, The Wild Duck, possibly the greatest play in the modern theatre, might have got by as a genteel pantomime had there been any gestures...
...many British novels are family chronicles that modern British fiction sometimes looks more like contributions to Burke's Landed Gentry than to literature. Last week two better-than-average female British novelists added two more family chronicles to the lengthening shelf...
...Fair Corporation announced plans for a great exhibition of contemporary U.S. art, to be housed in a $300,000 building once intended for a show of "arts in production." The distinguished chairman of the governing committee is President A. (for Anson) Conger Goodyear of the Museum of Modern Art; the distinguished director is scholarly, roly-poly Holger Cahil, longtime director of the WPA Federal Art project. Manhattanites, appeased, looked forward to a fairer fair...