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  • [1] "The Wise Child and the New Yorker School of Fiction," in American Moderns: From Rebellion to Conformity (Hill and Wang, 1958).

    Justice to J.D. Salinger Malcolm, Janet 2001

  • There's an enthusiasm felt and expressed throughout the arts community in Oakland right now, of which Ben Cooper, who recently curated a show for Chandra Cerrito Gallery, entitled The Moderns, says "Although my knowledge of the scene only goes back a few years ago... even in that time, the volume of the gallery, for instance, has exponentially increased."

    Max Eternity: Oakland's Art Explosion Max Eternity 2011

  • There's an enthusiasm felt and expressed throughout the arts community in Oakland right now, of which Ben Cooper, who recently curated a show for Chandra Cerrito Gallery, entitled The Moderns, says "Although my knowledge of the scene only goes back a few years ago... even in that time, the volume of the gallery, for instance, has exponentially increased."

    Max Eternity: Oakland's Art Explosion Max Eternity 2011

  • The assertion of the permanence of the powers of nature by the champions of the Moderns was the direct contradiction of the theory of degeneration, and they undoubtedly contributed much towards bringing that theory into discredit.

    The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth 1894

  • The Florida Whigs, who predate the Modern Whigs by a couple years, think the "Moderns" are closet Democrats.

    Political Party for Mild-Mannered Is Off to a Slow Start 2010

  • In numbers of places the 'dominees,' or preachers, were Orthodox, and in order to provide their own followers with spiritual fare, the 'Moderns' established in 1870 the 'Nederlandsche Protestantenbond,' or Netherlands

    Dutch Life in Town and Country P. M. Hough

  • So it came about that the Liberals were 'Moderns' and the 'Moderns'

    Dutch Life in Town and Country P. M. Hough

  • Trinity, the miracles, the Divine origin of the Bible, and certain other dogmas, as simple atheists, and as most 'Moderns' are Liberals, and

    Dutch Life in Town and Country P. M. Hough

  • The Science Master of Cheemaun High School put his head in at the door of the room where the "Moderns" teacher was instructing his class in

    'Lizbeth of the Dale Mary Esther Miller MacGregor 1918

  • More at www. nonesuch.com art "The Moderns" explores modernity in Irish visual art, including paintings by Mainie Jellett, experimental art by Brian O'Doherty and others.

    What's on Around Europe 2010

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