Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quite a niche for himself writing about trees. This young man was Joyce Kilmer . . . Mahwah is one of the few places where George Washington DID NOT sleep. As a matter of fact, he used to pass through here at a good rate of speed . . . And finally Mahwah has all modern improvements . . . So we ask you what do Azusa and Cucamonga have that we don't have...
...ignoring style changes, says the magazine in summation, the Russian "has made a defiant gesture at class consciousness that fails absolutely. Actually he would be a great deal wiser to follow modern fashion in its entirety or invent a completely different form of dress. His humdrum neatness, coupled with naive mistakes, merely gives him a bourgeois look...
Shaggy Composer Arthur Honegger, one of France's best, violently disagreed: ". . . A new division of the tone scale . . . would [not] serve any useful purpose. Modern man is already surrounded by such a lot of continuous noise that [his] sense of hearing is beginning to suffer from it." But, he wrote, "this does not mean that it is impossible to say new things . . . Beethoven renewed music without adding a new chord, a new rhythm or a new melody not already employed by Bach, Haydn and Mozart...
...Opposite. To the layman, the wonder of modern T-football is that anybody but a mathematical quiz-kid can comprehend it, much less play it. At Notre Dame, even the basic quick-opener, known as "43" or "the bread & butter play" (see chart), has a maze of variations. When the Notre Dame quarterback has called the play number ("43" signifies that the "No. 4" back is to ram through the "No. 3" hole) and the team has swung out of the huddle, Leahy's tackles have about two seconds to size up the position of the defensive team...
...among U.S. educators was something called "life-adjustment education" -a school of thought which seemed to believe that the teacher's job was not so much to teach history or algebra, as to prepare students to live happily ever after. "It will pass," said Professor Doyle to the Modern Language Association last week; but meanwhile, "it is continuing the same course of wild claims, blanket condemnation of 'traditional' subjects, anti-intellectualism, and contempt for 'book learning' that have characterized its predecessors for more than a quarter of a century...