 With his synthesis of literary nihilism and Orthodox devotion, Tudor found himself at odds with the modernists' hero, poet-journalist Tudor Arghezi.In "Contimporanul", Tudor had hinted that Arghezi's "pseudo-avant-garde" poetry was vulgar and hedonistic.Arghezi, a defrocked monk, wrote to inform Tudor that he could see no profound link between Orthodoxy and the Romanian psyche.