Word: modernizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spirit of Modern Architecture" was the subject of a talk by Joseph Hudnut, Dean of the Graduate School of Design, given last night over short-wave radio station WIXAL...
...first speaker of the series will be Theodore Spencer '28, assistant professor in English, who will discuss "Modern Poetic Drama." Other members of the Faculty who have consented to speak are Frederick C. Packard, Jr., '20, assistant professor of Public Speaking, Theodore Morrison '23, instructor in English, and Francis O. Matthiessen, associate professor in History and Literature...
Professor Louis Cons addressed the members of the Modern Language Conference last night in the Junior Common Room of Leverett House on "Enrangeant ma Petite Bibliotheque...
...progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards." First step in the right direction, says Huxley, is to stop whoring after the false gods of Fascism and Communism, heed those of Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity (except in its "extravagant asceticism .. . brutally cynical forms of realpolitik"). Most modern morality and social philosophy will have to go. In their place, men shall substitute such proverbs as: "All that we are ... is the result of what we have thought. . . . Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know. . . . War and violence...
...HENRY MEMORIAL AWARD PRIZE STORIES OF 1937-Edited by Harry Hansen-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Collection of 21 stories, notable for Stephen Vincent Benet's modern folk tale, The Devil and Daniel Webster (first prize), for Robert Coates's violent story, The Fury (third prize), for first-rate examples of the work of William March, Jesse Stuart, Robert Penn Warren...