Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Charbonneau sounded off again. He told La Société des Editeurs Canadiens du Livre Français: "It is by being Canadians and proud of it that our writers will assert themselves. . . . While modern French literature is in full decadence, while its techniques are obsolete . . . why should our younger writers continue to tie themselves exclusively...
...accidentally knocked unconscious while playing Irish Rebel Robert Emmet (1778-1803) in a costume play. The rest of The Old Lady consists of the actor's delirious visions: he is still Emmet, but an Emmet wandering through the streets and pubs and literary gatherings of a decadent modern Dublin...
...Idiot (French). A skeletal but sensitive reproduction of Dostoevsky's novel about a modern Christ. Memorable for the work of France's new idol Gérard Philippe, as Prince Myshkin, and of Edwige Feuill...
...early Christians. Political salvation is possible, he thunders, only if based on a union of traditional religious ethics and the secular humanist tradition of the West. A way of life based on unswerving devotion to love, mercy and respect for human personality is the only vision that can save modern man from total destruction...
...theater can be built, along with the other two parts of the plan, within the $750,000 limit fixed by the Committee. To skimp the theater would be inexcusable. It should be a theater, not an auditorium--a theater with at least 1500 seats, adequate dressing rooms, a modern stage, and a projection booth and other technical facilities. Without those qualities its usefulness would plummet downwards, negating the effects of economy...