Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evidences of death. The Associated Press reported that Socialist Dr. Jean Huet had told the General Council of the Seine Department that as many as 8,000 persons might be buried alive by mistake every year. "He recommended on behalf of the Socialist Party," said the A.P., "that more modern methods of determining death be required...
...Modern Madonnas. For the next few years, Héctor studied in Caracas and Mexico City, watched the great and violent Orozco work, and painted alone in his little Mexico City apartment. "But I tried not to have much Mexican influence," he says, "because I don't feel that way." He learned more from the still and delicate paintings of Giotto and Mantegna...
Today, at 29, Héctor Poleo still paints as if he had taken lessons from some Renaissance master. But his subjects are a modern nightmare. His women, like modern Madonnas, mourn, eyes shut against the world. A disfigured war hero stares numbly out of his canvas, his blind eye patched with paper money, his chest covered with worthless medals of tin, cork, broken combs, and tiny crutches. Poleo's trees are dead, his earth pocked and parched, his cities mere ruins and rubble. In some paintings, there are no signs of life at all-only tiny ladders down...
...Modern Talk. Now living in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, Héctor Poleo hears so much talk of war that war has become an obsession. "I worry all the time. Everyone begin to talk about a new war. These people don't know the true war or else they have inhuman feelings for other people. I believe in a new system." When friends press him about it, he says doggedly: "I don't care about a name, but something have to came. My viewpoint is more than political...
...half-hour program that followed was the first installment in the University of Louisville's twice-weekly "radio-assisted correspondence course" in "Problems of Modern Society." It included a chorus of All Hail to You, Dear U. of L., a talk by Louisville's unshrinking President John W. Taylor, and instructions on how to enroll (to sign up, just tear off and send in a registration blank; for college credit, enclose $30 tuition and you will get study materials, written assignments and, in due course, exams). Negroes, who by state law are forbidden to study in the same...