Word: ultramodernism
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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...
...dozen collections and the Luxembourg Museum in Paris lent portraits of lovely ladies for the open show. Artists represented ranged from early Romantic Théodore Géricault. Courbet, Cabanel to ultramodern Marie Laurencin and Jean Lurçat Lovely ladies painted included the Duchess of Rutland Russian Dancer Ida Rubenstein (by Leon Bakst) and Maud Dale thingly disguised as Mme D. by Jean...
...game for the game's sake: that it is better to lose a cleanly played good match than to win a poorly contested one. Such symptoms of saneness in the Harvard attitude toward football sufficiently dispel the bugaboo of overemphasis. Perhaps super-patriotism has become passe and the ultramodern plays or watches his football with pleasure as the guiding principle...
...criminal code may surely appear to most as a drastic reform. Considering the national peculiarities of the country, however, any discussion of the particular measures should prove of interest and even of value. The substitution of expert alienists in place of a jury system has at least the ultramodern touch; the alleviation of fines to suit the individual income of the prisoner though departing from the stern unswerving rigors of the usual courts of justice, seems in line with proper social ethics; whereas the last important item, the establishment of a federal committee to assist ex-convicts in social...