Word: modernly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When amateurs of the arts think of outstanding modern architects, the names most likely to pop into their minds are Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, Miës van der Rohe. If they know of Marcel Breuer, they usually identify him as the inventor of tubular metal furniture. In the Bauhaus in 1925. 23-year-old Marcel Breuer first designed tubular steel chairs. His designs were promptly pirated and vulgarized, and being identified as a furniture designer has injured Architect Breuer ever since. Visitors last week at Harvard's Robinson Hall, where models and photographs...
Twice in the last century - 1834-39 and 1871-86 - Spain was rocked by the Carlist civil wars. During the 1920s she suffered several general strikes, a seemingly interminable Moroccan War, an ironclad, royally inspired dictatorship under Primo de Rivera. In 1931, she ousted her King, adopted a modern, republican constitution. In 1932, General Sanjurjo led a shortlived Monarchist revolt in Seville. In 1934, Left extremists staged an equally abortive but longer armed rebellion in Asturias. Interested though it was, Europe left Spain's domestic convulsions strictly to Spain...
...Floyd Bennett Field fortnight ago (see above), a thin broth of a lad named Corrigan poked down out of the air at neighboring Roosevelt Field in a 1929 Curtiss-Robin monoplane with an old Wright J-6 motor that could turn up only 95 miles an hour. By modern standards the ship was a crate, but in it, with nothing to fly by but a compass, a bit of a map and the beam in his eye, 31-year-old Douglas P. Corrigan of Los Angeles had flown the 2,700 miles to New York nonstop. A vacation trip...
...Today, modern dance, like modern music and modern painting, is no longer modern. But last week its devotees from 34 States converged on Bennington, Vt., where Bennington College opened its fifth annual Festival of the Modern Dance. In the sprawling white farm buildings which house Vermont's youngest and most experimental college, some 150 acolytes, many of them heads of dance departments in other colleges, leaped and squatted with ardor, preparing for big stage events with which the Festival wall close next month. Present besides High Priestesses Graham, Humphrey and Holm, High Priest Weidman, were portly, dachshund-toting Louis...
...Nourse is not so naïve, however, as to maintain that all price mistakes can be thus explained. As an example of "the way in which, under modern methods of finance capitalism, the business policies of companies may be warped by forces remote," he cites the participation of National City Bank and Anaconda Copper Mining Co. in the famed campaign to peg copper prices artificially high in the late 1920s in order to grab extra profits from sale of securities. Inevitable result was chaos in the industry and the price broke from...