Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although Humphrey stated he did not "condemn any past decisions of Presidents," by his proposals, some of which are in direct conflict with President Johnson's views, he became the first Vice-President in modern history to break with a President publicly on an issue of major importance...
That kind of violence may be exceptional. But the tension it reveals is not. The Southern school system -- whose violent convulsions marked the beginning of the modern civil rights movement in 1954 -- is bracing for a new showdown. And although Northerners find it hard to understand, this showdown will be far more important than any that have gone before. More than the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision or the spotty efforts to wipe out segregated schools that followed, the 1968 fight to give black children a decent education will determine the Negro's future in the South...
...public, including scholars, the exhibition will offer the first real chance to examine, at close range and under modern museum lights, the way in which Renaissance artists made their frescoes. The craft, developed by the ancient Minoans and Etruscans, was so exacting that artists have devoted a lifetime to mastering the technique. First, the brick wall had to be prepared with several coats of a special plaster made with slaked lime that had been aged for a year or so. Then the painter deftly laid on his water-base colors, which were sucked into the wall by capillary action...
Leonine Shepherd. "These drawings are often surprisingly modern," observes Claus Virch, the Met's curator of European painting. "There is an expressiveness to them not found in the fresco." In some cases, a comparison of the sinopia with the fresco has revealed surprising differences. The sinopia beneath Andrea del Castagno's muscular St. Jerome [on this page and opposite] is no more like the finished fresco than the youthful Dorian Gray was like his aging portrait. The sinopia shows a handsome young man; the fresco, a gnarled and suffering ascetic. The difference is so striking that Princeton...
...that the virtues of such women, products of pre-tax wealth and protracted social training, are unlikely to survive the times. Fondly, he seeks to preserve their manners and their memory. If Miss Alexandria seems not entirely real except to his eye, what matter? Affection, especially in much of modern literature, is a rare commodity. Like the loyalty of a husband to an unattractive wife, Richter's affection for this Main Street Auntie Mame ends up being somewhat touching...