Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Enemy. In four years, Communism had established its own Vatican (a shiny, modern office building), its own Pope (Palmiro Togliatti), its own hierarchy of spiritual and secular servants. One of the most important was Luigi ("The Cock") Longo, a man with a sharp, beaked face, who is generalissimo of Italian Communism's army. His partisans, who never surrendered the arms with which they fought the Germans, are estimated at 150,000. Daily, Italian police were finding more of Longo's arms caches; no one knew how many they failed to find. Longo's men face...
Composer Menotti, who dislikes most modern music ("Where is the melody?"), is a man who crams his own with things to hum. Critics sometimes complain that his music sounds 19th Century and facile. But audiences take it at its own cheerful level...
...jerking in Boston's North Station, and graduated to become a guard in the Boston Museum (which now owns several of his works). Kupferman drinks coffee by the potful in order to keep painting far into the night. He spends his days teaching and banging the brasses for modern art. "I used to be an introvert," he confesses, "but now I even talk to people on streetcars...
Renault, state-owned since Founder Louis Renault was arrested as a collaborator and died awaiting trial, operates one of Europe's biggest auto plants near Paris. It is also one of Europe's most modern, completely retooled by the government. Renault is turning out 25 cars a day, expects to hit peak production of 300 later. It plans to ship 1,000 a month...
Such notes are by no means as brilliant as those found in the papers of other modern greats, like Henry James or André Gide, but they are remarkable in that they show from what banal themes and ordinary observations Chekhov developed his stories. When he writes, "A young man made a million marks, lay down on them, and shot himself," the reader is in the authentic Chekhov atmosphere. Occasionally, as in the letters, Chekhov drops his attitude of severe objectivity and speaks about himself in that humorously modest fashion that led Tolstoy to call him a wonderful man: "Medicine...