Word: modernly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many ways Eton is more modern than newer schools. Discipline (except for shirking studies) and games are almost entirely in the students' hands. The members of Pop and of "The Library," elect their own successors, make rules, impose punishment. Fagging (running errands and making tea for their elders) humbles young aristocrats...
Last week a competition for an art centre for Wheaton College gave some intimation of how many young U. S. architects now accept the credo of modernism. Of 252 designs submitted by 243 architects, all but a scant two dozen were modern in character, and the judges picked the work of two beginners. To the celebrated internationalists, Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, they gave second prize...
Wheaton College itself is a small, earnest institution for female education nestling in a wooded cluster in the village of Norton, Mass.; one of its 22 buildings dates from its founding in 1834. Jointly arranged by the Museum of Modern Art and ARCHITECTURAL FORUM, the competition carried a first prize of $400, several smaller prizes. But Wheaton agreed to hire the winner as architect of the art centre, pay him six per cent of the building's cost as his fee, advance him $1,000 which would be considered a cash award in case the art centre...
Mr.Nash has identified himself, in the Guestian manner, with the vast horde of Ordinary Citizens who are struggling to keep abreast of modern techniques of eating, dressing, plumbing and commuting. He has paused in the marathon to express his opinions on some of the more irritating aspects of his existence. His likes and dislikes are typically those of city-dwellers who curse and sweat over far-rolling collar-buttons, wives who make their husbands wait, parties next door, Blue Mondays, and socks that shrink uncontrollably. His comical fumings over the enraging trivialities of everyday life inevitably reduce the reader...
Nearest thing in the world to the architecture of ancient Egypt is the clean-sloping, massive 20th-century dam. Nearest thing to Egyptian stone-carving is the work of modern sculptors who feel that if they could surpass its life-loaded repose they would touch the summit of their art. Appreciation of such forms is not purely abstract. Through the imaginations of writers as diverse as Emil Ludwig and Thomas Mann, the civilized life of the Nile has begun to intrigue common thought as Classic Greece intrigued it for centuries. In Never to Die, a neat, lucid book on Egyptian...