Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...horizons in search of capital to build factories, hire managers and export young men to universities from Göttingen to Berkeley. They cast an envious glance at such cities as San Juan and Teheran, which have risen from squalor to considerable splendor in less than a generation. The modern influences of communications-tourists, transistor radios, Hollywood films, advertisements-have carried to every mud hovel in the world the idea that cash and credit can help men build a better life; .that capital can create choices...
...cost of capital goods is climbing. Take airplanes: from $1,000,000 for a propeller DC-6 to $7,000,000 for a 707 jet to about $40 million for an SST. Modern superhighways cost more than $2,000,000 a mile. Chase Manhattan Bank Chairman George Champion notes that in U.S. factories, capital investment per production worker has risen from $550 a century ago to almost $20,000 today; in the petroleum-refining industry, the figure is more than $250,000. The capital investment in a medium-sized U.S. farm is about $80,000-double what...
Indeed, the mild catcalls and bilious banner-waving provided last week by several hundred Greenwich Village vigilantes in front of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art seemed a slur on the once dread name of Dada. They were protesting a survey of Dada and surrealism, replete with crispy fried canapés, Galanos evening gowns, and a "bourgeois" black-tie dinner...
...World War I. It was baptized by two artistic types in Zurich who flipped open a dictionary at the word dada, French baby talk for "hobbyhorse." Incorporated into the more structural surrealist movement in 1924, it immortalized a species of hoopla and hubris that has become characteristic of modern American society. Dada's pranks and surrealist spectacles were revived in the 1960s as Happenings, which in turn have been commercialized by department stores, and ultimately popularized by flower children as love...
...surrealism, now half a century old, were not merely episodes or aberrations in the history of art, but part of its mainstream development, perhaps more profound and influential than any other style of the century. Now that the fusillades have died away on the barricades, the Museum of Modern Art's carefully winnowed exhibit of 340 paintings, sculptures, collages and assemblages is intended to show just what has survived that is genuinely entitled to be preserved in museums...