Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...detail--The New York Times said it was the largest ever assigned to a court case in police history--would be justified if there were no other way to insure the peace. But it takes time for a crowd to develop into a riotous mob. Enough time for a modern police force to reinforce a moderate guard. In fact, an excess of police could do just as much to trigger trouble as to prevent...
...Many a modern student of art who wandered into Manhattan's Whitney Museum last week smiled patronizingly at what he saw. On the walls were more than a hundred paintings and drawings by an almost forgotten U.S. landscapist named Thomas Cole. His worst pictures were vast neo-classical allegories done after he had become famous and made the Grand Tour of Europe. His best were meticulous and tender souvenirs of walking trips through the Catskills, the White Mountains and the old Northwest Territory, sometimes embellished with a log cabin, a lone hunter, or a circle of Indian braves. Under...
...What had modern life done to U.S. college presidents? Last week, some 400 of them got together in Manhattan to talk the matter over. It was the annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges, and the association's retiring president, Kenneth I. Brown, who heads Ohio's Denison University, had a few final words...
...Modern physics, proprietor of the atom, may be running out of worlds to conquer. In the current Physics Today, Physicist George Gamow explains that physics is still delving deep into mysteries, but may wind up its unfinished business as soon as it figures out the relationships between four basic values. Then, says Gamow: "We will be able to say that physical science has reached its end . . . and that all that remains is ... minor details . . . and adoration of the completed system. At that stage, physical science will enter from the epoch of Columbus and Magellan into the epoch of the National...
Chicken Every Sunday (20th Century-Fox) might look pretty foolish if it were set in modern times, but as a turn-of-the-century fable it seems plausible enough. The hero (Dan Dailey) is a rainbow-chaser-a dreamer, a promoter, an incurable gambler. He is the type who insists on financing a hospital in a small Arizona town because his wife (Celeste Holm) is expecting her first baby, but he is also ready to gamble their home against the long chance that he will bring in a copper mine. Dailey will take a flyer on anything, but once...