Word: unmodern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Between now and November 1958, Dwight Eisenhower's concept of Modern Republicanism will be in for a critical test. It will be attacked bitterly by the unmodern Republicans and attacked happily by the Democrats*, whose own deep party split is minimized by the fact that they do not have a President in the White House. When Republican leaders from eight Midwestern states met in Omaha last week to talk strategy for the 1958 elections, President Eisenhower told them that the party is only as strong as its local leadership. To link that oddly assorted local leadership into national control...
...French art from Romanesque frescoes to Cezanne. Gallerygoers could pick out the contrasts for themselves from clear, strong Pietas to a frowzy Toulouse-Lautrec chorus girl kicking up her heels in a smoky turn-of-the-century nightclub. First & last, the show was full of French vitality-and reassuringly unmodern. With mild understatement Washburn says, "People in general are pleased to see something they can understand...
Today every art student knows Modigliani's name, and thousands more admire his work. Their numbers have been increased this year by a big Modigliani retrospective show at the Cleveland Museum. Last week the exhibition moved to Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. It is curiously unmodern: Modigliani cared for neither the bright splashy colors of Matisse nor the fine-chopped complexities of Picasso. People, naked or not, were what he painted...