Word: modernly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hailing William Morris as "our one great man," Granville Hicks '23, fellow in American History, extolled the Marxian socialism of this post, craftsman and political crusader in a meeting of the Modern Language Group last night...
Most of the diseases come not from poor health but from the nervous strain of modern living, he remarked...
What saddened the two victims of the ruling was that they had to pay duty on the paintings not as reproductions of postcards, worth approximately two cents each, but as fashionable paintings, worth from $200 to $2,000 each. What saddened dealers, critics (including the Museum of Modern Art's President Anson Conger Goodyear and Director Alfred H. Barr Jr.) and artists in general was the ruling's implication: that an artist's model rather than his method determines whether his work is original...
...John Dewey, the good grey philosopher, has spent his life exploring endless variations on a single theme: experience is the best teacher. Because he hitched William James's pragmatism to Education and insisted that Education must make sense to modern society, John Dewey has exerted a great influence on 20th-century U. S. pedagogy. But he has lived to be 79 and "America's Greatest Philosopher" without ever explaining how Education can make sense when a society does...
...Wild Goose Chase, an imaginative first novel which perhaps deserved more readers than it got, Rex Warner wrote a modern allegory combining athletic prose, adventurous satire, thriller action. Less allegorical and more exciting, The Professor comes nearest to an English It Can't Happen Here, skids nearer plausibility than Sinclair Lewis' political goose-bumper...