Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Provencal troubadour or Negro blues man, the folk singer has always played the role of a romantic wanderer. Fashioning his songs from real or imagined experiences along the way, he has sung for his supper and moved on. But lately, that style has been in danger of fading. The modern bards team up with commercial rock groups, or pa rade into well-publicized seclusion, or go wandering in their own psyches in stead of the countryside...
...years ago, after a long, futile debate with friends about who was the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time, Miami's Murry Woroner, 43, a full-time producer of radio specials and part-time sports buff, decided to take the question to the nearest modern oracle: a computer. He asked 250 boxing writers and other ring experts to rate famous pugilists on a scale of 58 variables, ranging from the standard (speed, cutability, punching power) to the subtle (killer instinct, ring generalship, courage). With the help of a few experts, he studied shadowy old films and yellowed newspaper clippings...
...kids a feeling of knowing what everyone else knows." Similarly, Dr. Richard Kenyon, an official of the American Chemical Society in Washington, reclaimed his set after two years' banishment. "If you are without it these days, you are a little too out of touch with the stream of modern life," he says. Abe Wollock, an associate professor of theater arts at U.C.L.A., insists that TV for the most part is scarcely an adult intellectual challenge. But he is also persuaded that "wisdom and knowledge have always come through the visual sense. When a man throws out his television, there...
Sharp Contrast. Baden-Württemberg was formerly famed mostly for the cuck oo clock, which remained for centuries the area's best-known product. Today, virtually every small village and town has some sort of modern industry, and the state's output adds up to an impressive 17% of West Germany's total. Manufacturing accounts for 54% of Baden-Württemberg's $18 billion gross product, a higher percentage than in any of the other nine German states. Some 10,600 industrial firms produce more and export more per capita than those...
...steel-based industrial pattern, which is slowly pulling it down. As cheaper oil and natural gas continue to win the battle against coal, an eerie stillness hangs over abandoned mines in parts of the Ruhr. By contrast, Baden-Württemberg is blossoming because it has attracted such modern growth industries as chemicals, electronics and precision mechanics. To lure new industries, the state offers long-range development possibilities, a sunny climate, air that is in sharp contrast with that of the smoky, rainy Ruhr, and excellent transport facilities to France and Switzerland, which take 22% of Baden-Württemberg...