Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PLAYHOUSE (shown on Fridays). A British version of Dr. Knock, French Dramatist Jules Remains' good-natured spoof of the medical profession, which has be come a modern French classic...
Sophocles & White. Kennedy also showed that he will yield to no Republican in being beastly to Lyndon Johnson. In some of the strongest political invective yet heard this year, he harpooned the President for almost every problem facing modern America, from Viet Nam to water pollution, from urban riots to the suicide rate among American Indians. He paraphrased Sophocles on the sin of pride that inhibits a strong man from admitting his mistakes. In Kansas, he evoked the late William Allen White ("The more riots that come on college campuses, the better world for tomorrow"*) to show that someone past...
...this suggests that prisons are slowly absorbing a key lesson of modern psychology: desirable behavior is best induced by "positive reinforcement"-rewards rather than punishment. Thus, federal prisons and 24 states now use work-release schemes pioneered by North Carolina, where 12,000 select convicts have earned $10 million in ten years-even working as court reporters, while partly supporting their families, partly paying their prison keep and landing future jobs. At California's San Joaquin County Jail, one recent prisoner was an ex-airplane dealer who spent all day flying charter planes, duly landed for the night lockup...
...communitties. The Los Angeles Times was one newspaper following the practice, usuing many "zoned" editions to serve some 76 towns in the surrounding suburbs. Times Publisher Otis Chandler watched the process with growing dissatisfaction, then decided that the only solution is for a newspaper to grow the way a modern city-community grows...
...many optimistic and thoroughly modern citizens, the American Dream of the 1930s included not only a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage, but also an Autogiro in every backyard. Chickens and cars have proliferated, but the Autogiro-a prop-driven aircraft with a freewheeling rotor in place of a wing-has virtually disappeared, a victim of its own inefficiencies and the remarkable success of the helicopter. The dream may yet come true. California's McCulloch Aircraft Corp. has successfully test-flown a contemporary Autogiro that is safer than a conventional plane, less expensive than...