Word: ultramodern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There he lives in two remodeled stables which express his character. Their antique furniture is sober, solid, sleek. The décor is dashing-glass bricks instead of windows, great expanses of mirror, an occasional ultramodern doodad. Evidence of Whalen the businessman is tactfully absent. But Whalen the civic leader shows in prints of old New York, Whalen the horseman in a framed blue-ribbon, Whalen the family man in a group shot of his attractive wife and three children. And the gadgets display the Whalen flair for imaginative showmanship. Each step in one flight of stairs is a drawer...
...Barcelona, Author-Correspondent Vincent Sheean took advantage of the lull to get off a few fresh observations on the 22-month-old war. Most striking thing about the war to Sheean, who reached Spain only two months ago, is its incongruous combination of ultra-modern and primitive methods. The ultramodern: "Newfangled bombs, thermite, delayed-action fuses and the like, which are capable of greater destruction than any bombs hitherto used in war." The primitive: "There are no proper trenches anywhere [with the exception of those outside Madrid]. The ditches and ravines in these dusty clay hills take the place...
...fares slashed, air-conditioning increased. And exciting new equipment was being installed all over the country-so-called "neo-trains" which are exciting in performance as well as appearance. Some are Dieselectrics, some have streamlined electric engines, some are Iron Horses in new harness. All are fast, colorful, ultramodern...
From the 12th Street entrance a brilliant Avenue of Flags sweeps the visitor down to a great U-shaped Hall of Science, heart of the Fair. Like other Fair buildings it is long, low, ultramodern, brilliantly painted-blocked and banded in orange, red. yellow, white. It is windowless, because sunlight is variable, electricity constant, and because windows are too expensive for buildings which will start coming down when the last sightseer leaves...
...music will make climactic use of the tumtum beats conceived by Playwright Oneill. There will be a few lyric moments at least, when Jones calls on the Lord to save him. No one would predict the rest last week. Composer Gruenberg wrote his Jazziest and Enchanted Isle in ultramodern vein but the score he wrote for Jack & the Beanstalk (TIME, Nov. 30) was as simple and childlike as John Erskine's libretto...