Word: modernizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Benda; sculpture by Rodin, sketches of Isadora Duncan by Abraham Walkowitz; photographs by top-flight Austrian, Swedish, French and U. S. photographers. The handsomely printed program announced for Dec. 12 an "Evening of Ballet" to include the three foremost U. S. companies, for Jan. 2 an "Evening of Modern Dance" contributed by Ruth St. Denis, Martha Graham, Hanya Holm, Doris Humphrey, Tamiris and Charles Weidman...
...artificial lakes, handsome landscaping. Only building finished is the Administration Building where most of the Fair Corporation's 900-odd employes work and where dressy President Whalen holds forth in a copper-lined board room. Like the Chicago A Century of Progress, the Administration Building is showily modern, as apparently will be most of some 350 other projected buildings which eventually will jam the site's 1,200 acres. Most of the New York Fair's space has already been let and last week Japan contracted to rent 10,000 sq. ft., Russia 110,000 and Hungary...
Christopher Morley's first 41 books have been notable for affable after-dinner humor, a slightly ponderous display of undergraduate learning, a unique brand of lecture-platform whimsy. His 42nd, The Trojan Horse, is a scrambled modernization of the tale of Troy, complete with radio broadcasts, scenes in night clubs, pacifist demonstrations. In it Troilus is cast as a kind of star quarterback; the siege is a cross between a football game and a marathon dance; Cressida is a modern young woman whose wisecracks seem not quite so up-to-date; Pandarus is a Wall Street sophisticate; the Horse...
...quotations from moderns seem less striking than those from the past, it may be because there are so many moderns in the Morley revision. Editor Morley included George Ade ("Never put off until Tomorrow what should have been Done Early in the Seventies"), many newspaper rhymesters, Eliot, Lenin, Pound. Marx ("The only part of the so-called national wealth that actually enters into the collective possessions of modern peoples is their national debt"). Generous to his colleagues on The Saturday Review of Literature, he gives two pages to William Rose Benet, almost three pages to Stephen Vincent Benet, a half...
Making a distinction between militarism and the military way of waging a war, Dr. Vagts defines militarism as a comparatively new growth in modern society that serves no genuine military purpose, often loses battles. When military enterprises are undertaken to enhance the reputation of generals during wars, for instance, it is militarism, as it is when unnecessarily large armies are maintained during peace. The genuine military point of view Dr. Vagts finds occasionally in Napoleon (when he said an unnecessary maneuver, no matter how brilliant, was criminal), in Washington, in Clausewitz, in General Hagood, in Colonel Lawrence, who regretted...