Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...condition is essential: freedom of discussion, unmolested inquiry ... On this point there can be no compromise even in days of an armed truce . . ." As for Communism, no university worth its name will duck the subject: "The first requirement for maintaining a healthy attitude ... is to get the discussion of modern Marxism out into the open...
...been busy with some psychiatric promotion on his home grounds in Topeka: a meeting of psychiatrists and interested laymen to discuss a topic full of heavy psychiatric overtones: "Our Children in the Atomic Age." Thanks to the Menninger family, Topeka, in the U.S. heartland, is a world center of modern psychiatry. It is the only city in the U.S. where psychiatrists outnumber all other kinds of doctors; it is the largest training center for psychiatrists in the world; it trains 15% of all the psychiatrists now being trained in the U.S. Topeka is the home of the Menninger Foundation (formerly...
...drama group is rejuvenating this risque play by adding impressionistic music, substituting bars of London coffee houses, wearing modern clothes and eliminating such words as "Whig," and "Tory" from the 17th century script...
...rival Dramatic Club is currently working on "Amphitryon 38," a modern French comedy translated into English by S. N. Behrman...
...Furthermore, in illustrating the decline of domestic life, it goes in for some pretty childish and cheesy spoofing. The interpolated vaudeville show is not on the whole a very good show or a very good idea. It does not seem quite consistent that Love Life -which so deplores the modern spirit of commercialism and greed-should itself be the stage equivalent of a double feature...