Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mood to tackle more down-to-earth problems. The spirit of the meeting was set by the keynote address of Steering Committee Secretary Dr. Thorn Kerstiens. "We must put questions to the theologians which often coincide with those put by men who are not Christians," he said. "Modern man wants to see things from the viewpoint of his daily existence." As an example, Kerstiens asked delegates to consider such questions as, "What should be our attitude towards revolutionary movements?", and "Is racial discrimination a sin to be confessed...
...Modern cattlemen herd their cattle by helicopter, brand them with dry ice instead of red-hot irons, talk about "gatherings" instead of roundups, depend on a good accountant more than a wise old foreman and, when they fade into the sunset, do so in pickup trucks with their trusty horses comfortably trailered on behind. About the only things old pokes would still recognize about the industry, indeed, are its size and its troubles. Cattle roam no less than 40% of all the land in the U.S., account for 20% of all farm income and the principal revenues of at least...
Died. Clement R. Attlee, 84, architect of the modern welfare state in Britain; of pneumonia; in London (see THE WORLD...
...rescue a scattered, retreating, demoralized and outnumbered army from defeat, and to mount five spring offensives that drove the Chinese back beyond the 38th parallel-where international politics at last fixed a truce line. Retracing what by now must be one of the most overdiscussed personnel changes in modern history, Ridgway comes down hard on MacArthur for his refusal to accept the fact that the Chinese Communists wt:e massing for their invasion. "This wholly human failing of discounting or ignoring all unwelcome facts," writes Ridgway wryly, "seemed developed beyond the average in MacArthur's nature." He adds...
...rabbi, he uses an obsolescent language; yet he has the spiritual restlessness, the wry embarrassment at heroics, the ashy taste for the absurd that are so typical of modern writers. At the same time, the difference between Singer and the Jewish-American authors is the distance between the first and the second generations. However brilliant they may be at times, their Jewish tradition and color have a borrowed air; Singer's are genuine. Their characters, at large in American life, suffer alienation; his characters, alone in their closed world, triumph over isolation...