Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mexico's program is based on the conviction that the Revolution is over, and that now Mexicans have a job of modernization to do. Aléman agrees with such old revolutionists as ex-President Lazaro Cardenas that the basis of national prosperity lies in a prosperous countryside. But he argues further that people cannot have the good things of life till they have produced enough of them. That means that Mexico must make better use of its land. It also means that Mexico must get in step with the modern world by industrializing itself...
...built the U.S. Whatever their sins, the new bosses were willing to bet the wad on Mexico- at least, the part they did not keep for themselves. They took such sleepy colonial cities as Monterrey, Guadalajara and Mexico City, and turned them into bustling places with smoking factories and modern buildings...
...horrified at the treatment of patients that his own inner conflicts came to seem insignificant. He finally blamed the universal system of neglect less on attendants than on a public so indifferent that it would allow hospitals to be dark closets for storing the mental wreckage of modern civilization. When he quit his attendant's job to write a book, Maine was plenty mad-but not in a medical sense...
...Saint Thomas was an existentialist in a genuine sense, though very different from today's existentialists. ... [He] gave prudence and will their important and proper place. Modern existentialists have tried to reach conclusions without prudence and without will. They have ignored the spirituality behind the sublime cry of Job; they have remembered only the dung heap whereon Job lay. If we will see true existentialism, we must look for it in Saint Thomas...
...Modern existentialism marks a philosophical decadence. Poetry, painting, music, all became decadent when they busied themselves with shadows, forgot nature as it is. That is what is happening to philosophy today unless...