Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME is to be congratulated for . . . making available to the lay public the philosophies of the great religious thinkers whose ivory towers are not easily available to modern...
Would that men like Msgr.-Sheen ... could retire to the Middle Ages, where they belong in spirit! Such clever men serve merely to hinder what harassed modern man really needs: a reinterpretation of the nature of man on the basis of new psychological and philosophical insights. I refer them not only to Freud, but to the efforts of such truly significant men as Albert Schweitzer and José Ortega y Gasset...
...manner also new to modern diplomacy, the U.S. had seized on an omission in Stalin's reply to U.S. Newspaperman Kingsbury Smith. Smith had asked what Stalin's terms were for calling off the blockade. Stalin's answer made no men tion of the issue of Berlin's currency, his major earlier demand. In the U.N. lounge, Jessup met Malik and asked: Was the omission accidental? Malik said he would find...
...birthday crowds strolling last week across the imperial gardens at Tokyo, a frayed, rustic-looking little man stopped, doffed his hat and made a low bow toward the palace. In the middle of this gesture, once compulsory but now archaic, the little man suddenly became aware that his more modern-minded countrymen were staring at him. Deeply embarrassed, he checked himself in mid-bow, pretended that he was merely scratching his head, and put his hat back on. Then he shyly disappeared into the crowd...
Amidst a flurry of "solutions" and opinions on the state of the world in general, C. Crane Brinton '19, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, last night told the Harvard Conference for World Peace that he was dubious that atomic secrets will prevent...