Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Modern, materialistic Chinese prostrate themselves before the corpse of Dr. Sun Yatsen, just as modern, materialistic Russians venerate the embalmed remains of Nikolai Lenin. The writings of both men are, in effect, the new Bibles of two new, materialistic Civilizations...
...become a weak one, fostered by artificial and injurious enthusiasms. Precisely why should it be less fun to look at paintings than to read books is a question for which there are many answers. Lee Simonson, able editor of Creative Art, suggested one last week. He wrote: "The modernity of the painter today reveals itself just as much in what he paints as the way he paints it. That change can be summarized by saying, that formerly the subject of a picture was a text whereas today it has become a pretext "The reason that sustained support of modern...
Traitor's Past. Though nearly all journalistic historians of modern China explicitly describe Feng as a "traitor," .the Christian Marshal's missionary friends continued, last week, indignant at the adjective. The peculiar reasoning by which the missionary mind arrives at a conclusion opposed to the journalistic has seldom been better exemplified than by Miss Luella Miner of the Shantung Christian University, who wrote last week: "I challenge [anyone] to point to any 'cause' or superior officer or associate whom Marshal Feng has 'deserted' or 'betrayed' that has not been discredited later...
...building contractors, who recently erected the spectacularly modern Greybar Building, will be Todd, Robertson, Todd Engineering, Inc. The Todd of these companies is William Todd, friend to Rockefeller...
...amused comment on the inexhaustible inventiveness of those Americans, contains in truth the seeds of a mighty revolution in the intellectual history of all universities, and thus, in due time, of all the world. Harvard has played Yale at English literature. When Oxford annually plays Cambridge at Greek, at modern languages, at history, at theology, at mathematics, at science, the scope of the revolution will begin to be perceived. Learning and intellectual prowess will be, like cricket, football, rackets, and rowing, a means of scoring off the rival institution. They will be respectable. Those who cultivate them will no longer...