Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...signs welcoming the Red army, and prepared the Communist takeover. Before dawn of the next day, 20,000 troops of General Chen Yi's third field army marched into the city through the northwest gate. Country boys from Manchuria stared in open wonder at Nanking's big modern government buildings, all of which were occupied in short order. University students gathered to sing patriotic songs in welcome...
...Modern tests for pregnancy, improvements though they are over old-fashioned methods, are still fairly slow and cumbersome. Most also require experimental animals. The tests using rabbits take 48 hours; the standard frog test takes twelve hours, and the newer frog test (TIME, March 21) two hours. A skin test takes five days and is not very accurate. Last week Northwestern University Obstetrician Garwood C. Richardson announced a chemical test that requires no animals, takes only half an hour at most, is 100% accurate, and works within three weeks after conception...
Since the revival of Russian-style ballet in this country 16 years ago, U.S. balletomanes have seldom had to go hungry for classical numbers. But for a broader menu ranging from the serene and classic to the troubled and modern, they have gone more & more over the last ten years to the best U.S. company, Ballet Theatre. Last week, after starving for a season while Director-Dancer Lucia Chase hunted up angels, Manhattan ballet fans packed into the Metropolitan Opera House for an opening-night feast...
...preliminary session Friday evening, "four speakers of divergent viewpoints" will discuss the "Cold War and the Problems of Peace." They are Henry D. Aiden, associate professor of Philosophy, C. Crane Brinton '19, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, Reverend Joseph Fletcher of the Episcopal Theological Seminary, and Colsten Warne, professor of Economics at Amherst...
...Getting Married," the Bernard Shaw play which the Radcliffe Idlers successfully--revived last night, is what Shaw has called one of his disquisitory plays. As the title indicates, the subject the Master has taken under scrutiny is the modern institution of marriage; but, as is customary with Shaw, a great many other institutions--divorce, sex, the church, snobbery, to name a few--are also pulled gently but firmly apart. And, as is also usual with Shaw, he offers no solution or substitute but ends by fitting the broken pieces back together again. Shaw is not an anarchist; he has deftly...