Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...climate in which liberalization will be too great a temptation for the Communist countries to resist. This is particularly important now because the Russians themselves are being forced to admit that dissent is present-and growing-among the intelligentsia, who realize that the only way to a more efficient modern state is through greater freedom of ideas...
...promulgated a new constitution that in the long run, as its institutions evolve, will considerably reduce his own power. A year later, following the country's first free elections, the 216-seat Wolesi Jirga, or parliament, came into existence. Afghanistan seemed well on the way into the modern world...
Hanging Walls. Among modern architects, Mies has always been considered the great classicist. It is thus no surprise that the Berlin museum bears a marked resemblance to a classical temple set upon a giant podium of granite-covered concrete. The podium, or semi-basement, is occupied by the burgeoning permanent collection, but the upper gallery, designed for special exhibitions, dominates the museum. It is simplicity itself: a glass-curtained box with a 213-ft.-square roof upheld by only eight burnished-steel columns. Mies has carried out his concept with subtlety. The columns, for instance, are tapered ever so slightly...
...Rickles Show. Rickles, the insult comic, will knock off a guest or two per weekly half-hour. ABC will also try TV's first weekly book musical, That's Life. For continuity, the one-hour show will have a regular star, Robert Morse, and a continuing theme, modern marriage...
...Strouse moved from the Ford account-still J. Walter's biggest-into top management. Strouse, who was always more of an administrative man than a creative whiz, streamlined the agency and made it more profitable. "My basic thing," he recalled last week before leaving, "was to build a modern management structure." This he accomplished by separating senior executives from day-to-day operations so that they could think and plan better. He also introduced computerized operations wherever possible, cut back on the clerical help they replaced and "traded up on quality people." J. Walter's motto, coined...