Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...present research, conducted at the Center for International Affairs, deals with "how individuals become modern." He has been financed by various private and government agencies, and "in the late stages of our research" by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research...
...Harvard students. It was his plan that resulted in Randolph Hall, a "perhaps premature attempt to introduce what is now called the 'House Plan'," according to Coolidge's brother. Randolph Hall is now a part of Adams House, which has a room memorializing him. The Coolidge Professorship of Modern History was founded by his bequest...
Even in an affluent middle-class suburb, the modern, modular, $1,500,000 medical building would stand out. Along its cool white corridors hangs a collection of paintings that phase from photographic realism to violent impressionism. But many of the paintings, done by artists living in the neighborhood the medical building serves, are tinged with bitterness against white authority and the Government. For the building is the new Watts Health Center, smack in the middle of "Charcoal Alley," scene of the fiery Negro riots...
...catches have been fashioned into jazz pieces and film scores (Woman in the Dunes), but it is his avant-garde compositions that have made Takemitsu, at 37, Japan's leading exponent of a new, totally modern yet distinctly native musical style. He scored R I N G, a plaintive, murmuring piece for flute, lute and guitar, not with notes but with a diagram of a circle containing directional signals for time, dynamics and pitch. In Corona for Strings, he achieved wispy as well as grating effects by directing the instrumentalists to improvise on the basis of colored plastic disks...
...survival ability of modern nations: "If the President had picked me to predict which country [in postwar Europe] would recover first, I would say, 'Bring me the records of maintenance.' The nation with the best maintenance will recover first. Maintenance is something very, very specifically Western. They haven't got it in Russia. If I got in there in the warehouse, let's say, and I saw that the broom had a special nail, I would say, This is the nail of immortality...