Word: neo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...requiring a team of asses for transportation, a squad of musicians for performance, a thing distinguished only by freakiness. The stately Times disdainfully neglected to mention the concert in its critical column at all, rating it simply a news story, another sensational sideshow of the arts. The sophisticates or neo-sophisticates of Manhattan went, heard, were unimpressed, made no demonstration at all. The general attitude was one of puzzled indifference to a sensation-seeker. To many, this reception seemed unfair. Composer Antheil knows the classics, admires Beethoven and Handel above all others, appreciates them intelligently. He is an accomplished musician...
...DUNES-Harry Kemp-Brentano's ($2). To masculine Poet Harry Hibbard Kemp, neo-Whitmanian, who, bred in Kansas, has gone around the world on 25? and studied "tramping" for years, the sea and its gulls, its tidal slime, fog, dunes and shiny-footed waves, is a source of life in strong, recurrent phases. The first two dozen pieces of this volume evidently reflect a summer spent on Cape Cod with or near a loved woman, whose presence is more felt than seen. Besides these spans, which are briny and refreshing as a dory full of mackerel, are some painful...
...value. Would the Association classify Sliding Billy Watson as a hobo of a bum and would Bozo Snyder qualify as either? The fine fraternity of the open road and box car is threatened with the caste system when one wandering gentleman calls himself by a sweeter sound than another. Neo-classicism is raising its head bums must beware the genre as well as critics: it is devastating...
...outstanding feature of the first half of the current season has been the home run hitting of Outfielder Ruth of the New York Yankees. Damned in neo-season days as "a fat slob, good for nothing," Babe Ruth has thrice slapped the cheeks of his criticizers by not only ascending to within four homeruns of his 1921 world's record (when he hit 30 homeruns by the Fourth of July) but by leading the American League in total number of runs scored and (greatest of all) by maintaining the highest batting average in the League. However, it now appears...
...back to 1857 and sports fancy round windows and a very bad French mansard. Enormous, out of all proportion to everything else, the mass of, the Widener Memorial Library thrusts itself into this space. Belonging to what may be called the modern "librarian" brand or stack house type of neo-classical architecture, this big structure presents a serious problem to the harmonizers...