Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World War II. The Queen's domains were whittled away, but Campbell stirred neither drum or gun to save them. No one bothered him. Even at Victoria Barracks last week they still did not bother the old man (he was 80). In fact, he was a problem to modern, Socialist Britain-his records, of course, were lost. Someone suggested he go to Chelsea Royal Hospital, but it admits only veterans recommended for good conduct. "How," asked an official contemplating Campbell's case, "can you recommend good conduct...
...Future? The Sinarquistas do best where the campesinos are backward and land-poor. Along the coasts, where people have more modern ideas and organization, they find the going tougher. But authoritative Mexican sources today give them half a million followers, 135,000 votes. Along with the more sophisticated, city-educated Acción Nacional, they add up to a potent conservative force. If the official P.R.I, should ever lose its grip, they might well rule Mexico...
Until the Inner Light sweeps fragmented modern society into new community, Friends believe that institutions like Pendle Hill are necessary...
...Kollwitz self-portrait, the last she ever made, was on exhibition last week in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art (see cut). Aged, sick and nearly blind, Kathe Kollwitz had pictured herself in profile and alone, turned aside in exhaustion from her Christian task. In 1945, soon after she finished the lithograph, death came to 78-year-old Kathe Kollwitz...
...this final Nemesis overtakes the pretensions of modern man, it will not be his science that has betrayed him, but rather the complete prostration of his moral values . . . Our generation is presented with what may well be the final choice between the use of knowledge to build a rational world or its use to arm, for one last desperate affray, the savage and uncivilized passions of mankind...