Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...board would let him clean house "without handcuffs," and do some streamlining, he would personally foot any losses for the year (obviously he didn't think there would be any). Billy would "introduce modern lighting, staging, choreography and certain other elements of present-day stagecraft . . . without tampering with what is fine and traditionally right about grand opera." He also thought he could "fire and enthuse the staff into doing a more exciting job"-and the Met could certainly use a little of that. Chairman Sloan's reply was respectful as could be: he wanted to have another lunch...
History students will study the methods of the historians from Thucydides to Tawney and Toynbee. Then they will study the raw material that a modern historian might have to use-statistics, opinion polls, propaganda, debates on the floor of Congress-to see what they can make of them...
Last week on Pitcairn, the man who answered the ad-blond, 40-year-old Albert Wadkins Moverley-was pitching in with the work on the new schoolhouse. Teacher Moverley will have a few modern gadgets to help him with his 25 charges that John Adams would never have thought possible on Pitcairn. Among them: electricity, radios, and a 16-mm. movie projector...
...duty to rob, swindle, torture, enslave and murder . . . [and] the theory that the state you happen to be subject to is the only true god . . . and that every conflict over prestige, power or money is a crusade for the Good, the True and the Beautiful . . . The longer you study modern history," concludes the Arch-Vicar, "the more evidence you find of Belial's Guiding Hand...
...conveys, or should convey, by itself. Written as a movie scenario, Ape and Essence is burdened with a "narrator" who points the lesson line by line. Yet the book has a certain awesome impressiveness; its sheer, intractable bitterness cannot but affect the reader as Huxley chants his litanies over modern civilization...