Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...always had a vague feeling that I was sharing a common experience with Mr. Lonsdale's German shepherds, and am now glad to learn from the Head's own lips that canines and humans are equally amenable to his educational methods. Rousseau and all these other modern pedagogues may think that boy-training is a somewhat subtler process than dog-training, but that's obviously poppycock. Come on, old dogs, three rousing barks for the Head...
...Siqueiros is a complete, modern man, eagerly welcoming each new development in science, mentally exploring its cultural possibilities. But when he goes out in his car he is likely to forget to put gas in it and can frequently be found sitting disconsolately by the roadside waiting for someone to rescue him. Mostly, his car works well - because Angélica drives. She pilots it skillfully through traffic while he sits beside her explaining the fundamental principles of a motor car, two or three new ideas for traffic control, how landscapes can best be painted as seen from the window...
...people last week watched an extraordinary and absorbing spectacle-the public disgrace of a U.S. Army general. Never in modern times had a high officer suffered such dishonor, seldom had one brought more upon himself and his service than did stiff-backed, sharp-eyed Major General Bennett E. Meyers...
...boom at the turn of the century and the mad rubber hunt during World War II. The first left a high-domed opera house at Manáos and the 226-mile single-track Madeira-Mamoré Railway. The World War II boom established some of the beginnings of modern sanitation and medicine in a vast wilderness inhabited by some 200,000 people, most of them Indians...
Perhaps, therefore, the future of modern opera lies on the stage and not in the old opera houses, which will still supply the voices and the size and the glamour for Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, and their lessers. The composers seem to be aiming in that direction, for Benjamin Britten, as well as Menetti, has written operas for chamber orchestras and small cast. Britten's second, "The Rape of Lueretia," was on the Chicago stage last season. If it lands in a Broadway theatre with success equal to that of "The Medium" it will prove that Meuotti's work is more...