Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...think tanks and Disneylands seem to be spreading everywhere. California's people have created their own atmosphere, like astronauts. Yet it could be that the state is not really so different from the rest of the U.S. as it seems: that it is, in fact, a microcosm of modern American life, with all its problems and promises-only vastly exaggerated...
...trade," one executive says. And the domestic market promises even more. By 1975, personal income in California will have soared to $110 billion! But David Mahoney, young and relaxed at 46, turns out to be 180° from the kind of executives I know back East. He sits behind a modern oval desk in a palatial three-room suite of offices that he has taken over as board chairman of Norton Simon, Inc., a year-and-a-half-old concern formed from Canada Dry, Hunt Foods, McCall's and other companies. The place is plush?driftwood walls, deep-pile carpet...
...period. Landsman collects slender "green-ies," a kind of metal figurine usually portraying a modish nymphet in an affected pose, which were popular as a decoration atop the family radio console. In his current show at Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum, Lichtenstein displays a series of what he calls "modern sculptures," whose source he proudly admits is his own extensive library of Art Deco. Done in sleek brass, they look as if they should be holding back the crowds at Radio City Music Hall. Another indication of the era's popularity is the Smithsonian Institution's traveling exhibition...
Ragnar Frisch, who is widely regarded as the father of the modern planned economies of Scandinavia, believes that computers will soon help make planning popular in all countries. But he admits that models are far harder to build for rich, complex countries than for simpler economies. "Frisch and I started this work in the 1930s, in the days of the economic depression," says Jan Tinbergen. "We wanted to draw a plan to fight depression causes and keep unemployment under control." In recent years, Tinbergen has devoted all of his time to the problems of underdeveloped countries, where econometrics seems well...
...never missed it," he says. "The whole human condition is slavery, and self-liberation is that little flash in the darkness for the individual." That attitude is about all that Fowles' novels have in common. "In modern art we ought to get used to the idea that the world of the imagination is a kind of landscape in which a writer can go wherever he likes." Among future excursions Fowles is planning: a novel of Nabokovian linguistic experiment and two "entertainments"-a detective thriller and a science-fiction story...