Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wozzeck's plot is surprisingly old to be the perfect counterpart of Berg's ultra-modern score. It was written nearly 100 years ago by Georg Büchner, a German poet-scientist who had ideas far ahead of his time. Büchner died at 23 in Zurich where he earned a doctorate with a treatise on the nervous system of fish. He left three plays: Leonce and Lena, written while authorities were hunting him for his revolutionary sympathies; Danton's Tod, given in the U. S. a few seasons ago by Max Reinhardt...
...property of the Dukes of Portland though it has been on loan to the British Museum since 1810.* It is a blue glass Roman vase of the First Century on which were imposed beautifully carved opaque white figures. When discovered in 1550, the Portland Vase was that ultra rarity among classical antiques, a perfect piece, without a crack. In 1845 a wild-eyed individual, one William Lloyd, suddenly dashed it from its pedestal, smashed it in a hundred pieces which were painstakingly fastened together again...
Orange machinery will glare conspicuously against jet black floors to eliminate accidents. So that his men will hustle, Mr. Simonds is having his factory walls painted light green, a combination of energizing grass green, ultra-violet-reflecting blue, cleanly white. Because manpower tires, lags behind machinepower, the Simonds sawmakers will listen to an interval of stirring music at the fatigue hour (two hours before quitting time). The efficiency, industry, ingenuity of the sawmakers will be graded by men who watch from sus pended overhead walks. A similar building is being planned as a temporary exhibit at the Chicago Fair...
Just as TIME represents the ultra-modern in news presentation, so Radio epitomizes the latest in communication methods, and TIME should not be the last to accord proper recognition to a term that is so widely used in all parts of the world...
...Moreover, we have been thinking in terms of a rural, pioneer, and agricultural society. We have not realized that there are other alternatives for society than absolute individualism or absolute socialism. In the pioneer days everybody was ultra individualistic, with a disrespect for order and obedience because he did not want to be thus limited and saw no necessity for that supervision. The pioneer was independent, self-reliant, and versatile: we can be neither. Yet we continue to think on that old basis and say. 'Let everybody look out for themselves.' But a change has taken place from the system...