Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Completing the list of American educators are literary critic Alfred Kazin, New York Herald Tribune music critic Virgil Thomson '22, J. J. Sweeney, former director of the New York Museum of Modern Art, and public opinion expert Lyman Bryson of Columbia University and the Columbia Broadcasting system...
...most pertinent criticism of Mr. Truman's opinion of modern art, part of which appeared in your June 16 issue, was made by the man under whom he served as Vice President. At the opening of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said...
Summing up the airplane's anti-human aspects in a weighty book (Human Factors in Air Transport Design; McGraw-Hill; $6), Dr. McFarland concludes that modern planes, for all their silvery slickness and speed, are still dangerous, noisy, uncomfortable and a generally unsatisfactory means of travel...
Noise & Bumps. Besides the natural air hazards (bumpy air currents, bad weather, lack of oxygen at high altitudes), the airplane itself is a menace to health, McFarland thinks. Scientific tests have shown that the modern plane cabin is almost as noisy as a subway train. On a long flight, McFarland reports, noise can increase fatigue, inefficiency and irritability to the danger point. There is no proof, he says, that constant flying permanently deafens airmen, but it does reduce their hearing in the higher frequencies (a deaf spot known as "aviator's notch"). The plane's vibration also...
...argument, peculiar to modern times, over whether a church "should look like a church" was being fought again in the U.S. and England...