Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Commons. Frail and diffident, timid in crowds and a mediocre public speaker, he seemed an unlikely leader for such a challenging moment. He surprised everyone by proceeding to direct a "bloodless revolution" the likes of which Britain had not experienced since the Reform Bill of 1832 created the modern Parliament. Attlee's Laborites set up an entire social security system and welfare state in Britain, and joggled the underpinning of Britain's free-enterprise system by nationalizing the huge steel and coal industries, the trucking companies, railroads and airlines...
...Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development is dis tributing grants around the country to such cities as Seattle, Atlanta, Los Angeles and Washington- all of which are planning to build new subways- to help them finance technical studies. 80-m.p.h. Bursts. Most heartening example of what a modern subway system can look like and accomplish is Montreal's new Metro. With its quiet, rubber-wheeled cars and elegant, uncluttered stations, it is, except for a lingering problem with the air conditioning, a positive pleasure. One year old this week, it has proved so popular that passenger traffic...
...Picasso, prevailed on him to let the sculpture travel on to London's Tate Gallery this summer. Last week Americans got their chance to see what all the excitement was about when 290 pieces, selected by Sir Roland, went on view at Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
...meditators who variously expound Hinduism's belief that ultimate reality can be known not through reason, but only through the soul's intuition of itself. Though some of these holy men have managed to get a hearing outside their own country, none has done so well in modern times as the Maharishi (Great Sage), who had a considerable following even before he met and conquered the Beatles last August while on a lecture tour of England...
...Maharishi evidently believes that his teachings are of special spiritual benefit to affluent, tension-ridden Westerners. In Aalborg, Denmark, last week, he defended his movement in couch-oriented terms. "Modern psychology has pointed to the need of educating people to use a much larger portion of the mind," said he. "Transcendental meditation fulfills this need. And," he added sagely, "it can be taught very easily...