Word: modernizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very keeping of American civilization. The public tends to underestimate the strength of the teacher's place in the world and to regard his job as merely a job; it is a shame that Professor Whitehead's insistence on the necessity of autonomous professions for the freedom of the modern state, especially education, cannot be more widely grasped...
...three Strauses: Johann, Johann fils, and Oscar, and the ballet is active throughout, interpreting the dancing of each period. In the first act there is a ballet of toe dancers, a chorus of Can Can Girls appears in the second, and in the third, of course, we see the modern chorines. But if you think the Can Can Girls of 1900 had anything to learn from the modern variety, you better drop in on the Opera House and have another look...
Last week leg-weary Manhattan art reporters were convinced that few seasons in living memory had produced so much bustle and stir. While the Whitney Museum and the Museum of Modern Art were ready to spring big shows of U. S. paintings, the number of important small shows and other events left up-to-the-minute-keepers far behind. Samples...
...Milhaud. libretto by Jean Cocteau, in which a woman kills a sailor, unaware that he is her husband who has returned after 15 years' absence. This week the Guild gives the first professional performance in the U. S. of L'Incoronazione di Poppea, an antique forerunner of modern opera, composed by Claudio Monteverdi and given its debut in Venice in 1642. The work has been reconstructed from its fragmentary original score by Ernst Krenek, best known in the U. S. for his jazz opera Jonny Spielt Anf, and as conductor of the Monteverdi work making his first visit...
Like most fields of investigation in modern engineering research. Sanitaray Engineering makes application of the detailed knowledge of a great many different fields, such as Civil Engineering, Biology, Chemistry, Bacteriology...