Word: modernizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great debt which Japan owes to Boston," Saito declared. "Many of the makers of modern Japan had their education at Harvard." He mentioned in particular Baron Kikkawa, who wrote of his education here, "Had I lived those years in Japan, I would have been surrounded by so many attendants that I should not have learned to depend upon myself so much . . . I recommend my children to cultivate the spirit of independence so to prepare themselves as to be able to stand in the world without the aid of others...
...critical spectators at her latest performance, these old acts still seemed Angna Enters' best. Though the audience was gleeful the judicious grieved at the cheaper symbolism of a new piece called A Modern-Totalitarian Hero, or "The glory of living dangerously," in which Miss Enters appeared in a heavily bemedaled uniform and gas mask, went into mock ecstasies over a rose, then tore its petals off in rage at being pricked by a thorn...
...less turbulent but no less significant year. All authorities agreed that the wave of public interest in painting which began during Depression rolled on, getting higher. In February the superb exhibition of pictures by Vincent van Gogh, assembled by Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art in 1935, closed in Manhattan after being seen by 900,000 people in nine cities, a record for traveling shows in the U. S. surpassed only by Whistler's Mother (TIME, Nov. 14, 1932). In November the all-pervading Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration completed its first two years. Among...
Other animated cartoons have heroes as bold as the Prince, as resourceful as Mickey or the sensible little pig. Other animated cartoons present portents cataclysmic as the Wolf's house-flattening puffing, physical violence as severe as the heroic bartering Donald Duck undergoes in Modern Inventions. But whereas Popeye's inevitable fight at the finale is almost inevitably cruel, grotesque and ugly, the worst beating ever handed out in a Disney film-the "pacifying" the big wolf gets in Three Little Wolves-somehow manages to be as charming, as delightfully inventive, as it is deserved...
FROM THESE ROOTS-Mary M. Colum -Scribner ($2.50). Twelve essays, discussing writers as far apart as Flaubert and Thomas Wolfe, linked together by an analysis of "the ideas that have made modern literature"; the work of a seasoned, conservative critic whose writing is always lucid and shrewd, sometimes (as in her comments on "the despair of the modern world") eloquent, powerful, exact...