Word: modernly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...compulsory curriculum based on the "Hundred Great Books" which, according to its authorities, are the foundation of all our knowledge and culture. It is, roughly, a chronological study of the arts and sciences of the ages, conforming to its supporters' idea of what is the basis for a modern education, and raging temporally from Homer's Iliad to Freud's Principles of Hysteria. There is no latitude of choice, each student being compelled to study four languages, Latin, Greek, French and German, besides the required sciences, mathematics, music, and theology, considered as a speculative science...
Favorite subject of progressive educators is social studies-how and why people live and work together. Modern schools start teaching this subject early, explaining it to moppets by describing a simple society like that of Eskimos. Centerville, a textbook published last week,* brings social studies closer to U. S. children by analyzing a simple society in the Middle West's corn belt. For nine-year-olds in the third grade, Centerville is a story of a '"typical" (but unidentified) village of 309 people in Indiana. Authors of this child's Middletown are Stanford University's young...
...Louisan with an inquiring nose and an unobtrusive but exacting eye. Walker Evans began with simple equipment ten years ago, mostly influenced by Matthew Brady's Civil War photographs and by the movies of Von Stroheim and Vertov. This week Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art published American Photographs, a book of 87 pictures by Evans, and honored him with its first one-man show of photography...
This week this "monk of modern art'' was shown in a new aspect to the U. S. public when Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art exhibited 150 lithographs, etchings and wood engravings produced by Rouault in the past 20 years. Many had not been shown anywhere before. Most were done at the instance of Vollard for that publisher's fiercely faithful and interminably delayed de luxe editions. Several magnificent portraits were included: of Moreau, Verlaine, Baudelaire. In the color etchings art followers found new, bright colors, strange to Rouault, as if medieval gaiety were entering...
...Modern and traditional architecture came slam-bang into dramatic contrast last week between the covers of LIFE. On eleven double-page spreads appeared eight plans for houses, four by "modern"' architects arrayed against four by "traditional"' architects, each pair designed to meet the needs and income of an actual U. S. family. By this presentation LIFE hoped: 1) to inform its readers of how easily any family earning from $2,000 to $10,000 a year can build an efficient, pleasant home; 2) to poll its readers on the relative popularity of the two types of home building...