Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hubert remains undecided about the disposal of: a $3,000 diamond ring and a $1,000 star sapphire; a $2,500 diamond watch; a custom-built $1,000 kitchen ("If it's more modern than mine, I'll take it"); a $425 record library; an ermine jacket, hat and muff; a one-year scholarship to the Berkshire Hills girls school; a $2,850 trip to Paris and Monte Carlo ("I'd rather go somewheres else-like California...
...playing the most games on the team which allows the fewest goals) for four straight years. Last year he lost the trophy to Turk Broda, rough-&-tumble goalie of the Toronto Maple Leafs, but had cinched it again this season. On top of that, last week he set a modern record for consecutive minutes of play (309 min. 20 sec.) without allowing a score, beating Boston Bruin Frankie Brimsek's old mark by 77 min. 26 sec. and topping by 19 min. 8 sec. the standard of his idol, the Chicago Black Hawks' late, great Charlie Gardiner...
Asia's New Voice (MARCH OF TIME) is a moving window opening on one of the great upheavals of modern history. It takes a quick look at the sweep of events in India since the war: the withdrawal of the British, the vast subcontinental explosion of violence and civil war, the locust-like migrations of terrified millions, and, like the crack of a pistol in a crowded room, the assassination of Gandhi...
Most startling, perhaps, for U.S. moviegoers are the shots of India's modern commerce and industry: the streamlined tentacles of Air-India operating over 6,000 miles of airways; its vast, nationalized (but hardly modernized) railroad system, fourth largest in the world; the radio station at New Delhi, looking like a maharaja's palace; and its huge cotton mills. The film is cut and paced to make forcefully clear the disorder and vitality, the sloth and aspiration of an ancient country in the process of becoming a modern nation...
...Notes starts by challenging people who use the word "culture" without ever pausing to think of what it means. To the average citizen, culture is a handy catchall into which to dump the arts, education, plumbing, science and any other pursuits that seem to be elements of modern civilization. To some philosophers it plainly represents "an interest in, and some ability to manipulate, abstract ideas." Peers of the realm tend instinctively to see culture as "urbanity and civility"; the grubbing archeologist sees it in the shape of the potsherds and tibias that he digs up in Papua and the Tigris...