Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Only the modern Western nations have adopted effective preventive checks, and only these nations have low death rates and high living standards . . . Nearly two-thirds of the world's 2.3 billion people, still relies largely on positive checks . . . and the people are poor and ignorant...
...Medieval Western man agreed or consented to the substance of known and constant law. Modern Western man has never fully known his future law, for it is always still to be made. Agreement or consent is given not to the substance, but to the authoritative source that has the right to make it. In order to establish democracy, one has to establish not only free choice of representatives; one has first to establish the legislative function that representatives are to exercise. The implanting of democracy in custom-ruled societies requires simultaneous performance of two great tasks which, in the West...
...modern art revolutionary? Not on your tintype, say the moderns. The habit of ignoring nature or rearranging it to suit yourself is as old as art itself...
...dramatize this point, Manhattan's publicity-wise Museum of Modern Art was staging a show last week that paired ancient distortions with modern distortions-and implied that both were good. A paleolithic fetish 77,000 years old and shaped like a bunch of grapes made Gaston Lachaise's blimpish Standing Woman (1932) look a comparatively svelte great-granddaughter. A Canaanite idol dated 1000 B.C. seemed a more attenuated ancestor of Wilhelm Lehmbruck's Standing Youth, done in 1913 (see cuts). The horse in Picasso's Guernica was no more or less weird than the deerhead mask...
...measurements that brought Miss Laughton the modern beauty prize are the same the ancients appreciated. HTW's Helen distributes 143 pounds over 5 ft., 10 in. Her vital statistics are 36"-26"-36," reading from top to bottom...