Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...editors are happy to be able to offer a generous helping of what many think of as at least a partial remedy for the ills of the world: poetry. This week the entire Books section is devoted to a thorough survey of contemporary U.S. poetry-a look at the modern school and what has been developing over the past decade. All the reviews were written by Contributing Editor George Dickerson, himself a poet, whose work has been published in a variety of magazines, including Mademoiselle and The New Yorker...
Sobell's wife Helen, who teaches science at a Manhattan school, never ceased to labor for his release. She spoke millions of words at protest meetings and ground out countless appeals for help on an electric typewriter, the one modern appliance in the Sobells' drab Greenwich Village apartment. With friends who stood behind Sobell throughout his imprisonment, she spent roughly $1,000,000 on legal maneuvers, including seven fruitless pleas to the U.S. Supreme Court. Money came from those who believed that Sobell had not received a fair trial. Among the doubters were Nobel Prizewinning chemists Harold...
...cities will swell by the equivalent of five New Yorks. Mobility has scattered families and eroded the continuities that once cemented local loyalties. Great organizations are now society's principal units. Knowledge is the key economic resource. Innovation seems to be salvation. So swift is the pace of modern change that, in terms of common experience, America has a new generation every five years...
Rock 'n' roll is the only high-quality mass art form we have today and it would be a ghastly mistake to allow it to degenerate into the middle-class art form that classical music is, or into the cliquish limited-audience music that modern jazz became. It is disturbing to see many of the best musicians in America trying to remold rock in an alien jazz and classical music inspired cast...
Commenting on investigations by another member of the group, Harvey Cox, professor of Divinity, Mesthene wrote i his report that technology was largely responsible for "the pluralism of belief systems that is characteristic of the modern world" and that religion must come to terms with this...