Word: modernly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play which stirred New York audiences for over a year has been described by Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times as "the best music drama of recent years because it was modern and realistic in every fibre of the music and story...
...members of the junior class, from which the statistics were gathered, only 11 per cent were jitterbugs, and 89 per cent were opposed to "jitterbugging," describing the modern version of the terpsichorean art as "barbarism...
...stimulating, thought-provoking teaching, and for a unified policy in a department that is groping in the past. But while the department has stood still, the world has moved forward to new techniques, new forms, new social forces. The recent establishment of a fellowship for the study of modern art is a hollow mockery when the one man that can save the department from its past must leave...
...Paine Hall is also devoted entirely to chamber music. This program comes closer to home chronologically, for, although it opens with the Beethoven "B-Flat Trio for Clarinet, 'Cello, and Piano" and closes with the Mozart "String Quintet" (two violas), the rest of the program is made up of modern works: "Choros II for Flute and Clarinet" by Villa-Lobos, a short rhythmical piece of great difficulty; "Three Counterpoints" by Honegger, which are gay pieces in spite of their academic form; and the second performance of Piston's "Sonata for Violin and Piano" (Mr. Piston will be at the piano...
With nice Victorian scruples, Biographer Scudder likewise calls it a happy marriage. Modern readers will likely be more interested in his unstressed evidence of Jane Carlyle's frustrations: her nervous headaches and insomnia, her refusal to write (although her good friend Dickens said she could outdo George Eliot), her declaration that "One writer is quite enough in a house." Nor can the reader so lightly dismiss as a weak-moment confession her confidential opinion that marriage is "extremely disagreeable...