Word: modern
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Perkins has accepted an invitation to be a visiting lecturer in Germany at the University of Gottingen. "I also plan to work on my book on the sublime and to read extensively in modern German poetry," he said yesterday...
Ultimately, Redrejo said the Spanish people, long passive under the Generalissimo's rule, will lose their fear and take the political initiative necessary to rid Spain of the anachronistic spectre of the army and other traditional reactionary forces. Only then will Spain enter the modern world, he said...
Along with cities like Houston, Richmond and Birmingham, Atlanta epitomizes the New South. An industrial, modern, rapidly changing urban complex, Atlanta seems at once foreign to, but trapped within the rural Old South. Not as much a pearl of the Renaissance languishing in a medieval sea as some of its boosters like to imagine, Atlanta is more a cacophony of modernity occasionally pierced by the strident monotone of its feudal past. McGill calls his city "a fly caught in amber...
Some 20,000 of the NRA's 960,000 members attended the convention. They listened to speeches opposing proposed gun legislation, saw demonstrations of the U.S. Army's small arms exhibit--"the finest in modern and antique firearms and the men most knowledgeable about them," according to NRA publicity...
Unlike Indian games which could last for days, the modern contest is only 60 minutes long, divided into four periods...