Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Memory & Myth. Modern-Dance Pioneer Martha Graham is as far removed from Bolshoi technique as the cloister is from the athletic field. Probing ever deeper into the recesses of the psyche, she is an explorer of the mental interior, reflecting on the roles of memory, meditation, myth and the male-female relationship. She successfully blended them all at the beginning of her 21-week Manhattan season in a new work called A Time of Snow, a somber retelling of the love and tragedy of Heloise and Abelard. The Graham dancers embraced the angular and knotty choreography with the familiar...
Friendly Firing. Like much of the modern business in the Middle East, Trans-Med was born because of the oil industry. Abu-Haidar, graduating from the American University of Beirut, decided against a career in medicine, went to work as a junior clerk for the Arabian American Oil Co. He was eventually named head of the transportation department, given the job of providing food and equipment for Aramco crews prospecting along the Persian Gulf. Trucks carrying the supplies either bogged down in the desert or were stopped by tribesmen; ships sometimes went aground. Abu-Haidar decided to switch to airplanes...
...description delights the man who directed the display. Robert J. Braidwood, 60, is an old hand at upsetting his fellow archaeologists. By using modern aerial photographs to give an astronaut's eye view of the ancient world, and placing ancient artifacts in a contemporary setting, the field director of the University of Chicago's "Prehistoric Project" contrives to add unexpected drama to the simple relics he has found in two decades of digging in the hills of Iraq, Iran and Turkey. Scorning what he calls the gravedigger school of archaeology, Braidwood says: "I've never had much...
...wanted a boy baby were advised to avoid copulation during the dark of the moon and (while an abbot prayed) to drink wine, mixed by an alchemist, with lion's blood. As often as not, they gave birth to girls. And despite scientists' growing understanding of genetics, modern parents are unable to do any better in choosing the sex of their offspring. But help may be on the way. Two English scientists have devised a technique for controlling the sex of rabbits. Their method, the first to achieve 100% accuracy with any mammal, may some day be applied...
...Moscow, a chunky, blue-eyed Englishman arrives at the KGB headquarters at No. 2 Dzerzhinsky Square to pursue his duties as "chief adviser" in Russian espionage against Britain, the Commonwealth and the U.S. He is well equipped for the job. As the most successful double agent of modern times, Kim Philby O.B.E., scion of the British Establishment, Cambridge University, would very likely now be the head of the British Secret Service had he not been discovered and forced to flee to Russia...