Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Modern Priest Looks at His Outdated Church, Kavanaugh...
...Western Europe, whose ancient schools are a national scandal and whose roads are woefully inadequate. Most important, the country faces stiff economic competition abroad, especially from West Germany and the U.S., and could better channel its money into making more computers and the other equipment necessary to run a modern economy. "While we are preparing for a military war, which doubtless will never happen," says Jean-Jacques Servan-Shreiber, general director of the weekly magazine L'Express, "we are losing the industrial war." Nonetheless, the French Assembly, which has had many a battle over appropriations for the force...
...suggesting either death or maturity; in Sebastian, John Butler's sinuous, sensuous dance patterns turn a 17th century tale of black magic into palpable, modernistic horror; Macdonald's own abstract Time Out of Mind points in its brutal, angular movement to a parallel between the pace of modern life and the barbaric rituals of ancient times...
...else fails, the study group suggests the adoption of "blood games," something along the lines of the Spanish Inquisition or the witch trials. Or "reintroduction of slavery in some form consistent with modern technology and political processes. As a practical matter, conversion of the code of military discipline to a euphemized form of enslavement would entail surprisingly little revision; the logical first step would be the adoption of some form of universal military service...
...also don't think there is a sharp distinction between war and peace in modern times. We should make long-range decisions, and not be influenced by the Vietnam...