Word: unmodern
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...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...
...name if not of his books. To take advantage of his sudden fame, Publisher Knopf rushed two Bunin reprints (The Gentleman from San Francisco, The Village) through the press, last fortnight brought out his latest (translated) novel, The Well of Days. Readers of this grave, sensitive but unmodern autobiographical novel may now see what Author Bunin is about, will agree that the Nobel Prize Committee could have made many a worse choice. An unreconstructed rebel against the Soviets, Author Bunin left Russia some 16 years ago, lives an exile's life at Grasse, France. The Well of Days tells...
...medical protection in force at other institutions makes the provision afforded by Harvard seem indefensible. The construction of the physical plant must await the generosity of an individual or an appropriation by the Corporation; the rehabilitation and expansion of the medical staff and service, though hampered by the present unmodern facilities, ought not to be delayed longer...
...young man in his twenties he made his appearance with a bulky novel of two volumes, quite an unmodern thing to do early in this century when everybody was proud of being in haste and having no time for long tales, only for the "short" story. But he made his public sit down and read what he had to say. "Buddenbrooks, Decline of a Family." Knopf, New York, was the title of the book. He covered the whole nineteenth century with the history of a merchant family in an old Hanseatic City, spoke "partly in a sombre, partly...