Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Farmer Campbell turn back one page of TIME and read the more modern thought of Eisenhower: "Our competitive system is an essential feature of democracy, but the practice of competition gives no man, no group, the right to act for selfish and immediate gain against the interests of the nation. . . . Banker and borrower . . . politician and farmer . . . must each keep his eye upon the major good...
Beaten down by loneliness, the hard-of-hearing tend to be irritable and depressed about their trouble. Davis & Co. think that there is no reason to be so gloomy; modern medicine has minimized the handicap of poor hearing...
...Dali shows us the hierarchized libidinous emotion, suspended and as though hanging in midair, in accordance with the modern 'nothing touches' theory of intra-atomic physics. Leda does not touch the swan; Leda does not touch the pedestal; the pedestal does not touch the base; the base does not touch the sea; the sea does not touch the shore...
...observer is concerned, has been a collection of conclusive facts diametrically opposed by a collection of equally conclusive facts. Except for the Hoover Library at Stanford, the Research Center will be the only major organization devoted to a discovery, on a coldly academic basis, of the actual nature of modern Russian institutions. Should the project be successful, it may enable, or at least encourage, a return to the realm of enlightened opinion from the realm of doubt and uncertainty in which most persons have been roaming recently...
...Inter-disciplinary" is the word which Clyde M. K. Kluckhohn, professor of Anthropology and director of the project, uses to describe the nature of the study. It means that the Research Center will undertake an organized and cohesive study of modern Russian institutions. The project will not consist of financial grants for research to individual experts. It will bring individual experts to Cambridge, but they will work within a plan of study. Furthermore, this plan will include study not only of economic and political institutions, but also of sociological, anthropological, and psychological sides of Russian life. The findings...