Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...book because our EDUCATION section used the occasion of that tour three years ago (Sept. 4, 1964) to tell the story of Clarke, a small but remarkable girls' college that aims to educate its students for a fulfilled and rewarding life as wives and mothers in a modern world. Following a well-established pattern in such cases, Clarke found that a story in TIME was quite a landmark in its life. It got inquiries from prospective students and interested parents all over the country; since September 1964 its enrollment has increased 50%, from 800 to 1,200. Happily, contributions...
They are not young men, nor are they yet men of note. They are worldly philosophers--quick to understand the classical implications of modern-day politics, and quick to dispose of classical rationalizations...
...works have since the days of Brecht and Weil, "A Day in the Life" provides a strange, new, jolting way of looking at the familiarities of modern life, so habit-forming that they are no longer disillusioning...
...performers who dress up in Edwardian band costumes to comment on modern times? First of all, when you talk about the Beatles, you mostly mean John Lennon and Paul McCartney, who write nearly all the words and tunes, and producer George Martin, who writes the rest of what you hear on the record. Martin knows all the musical technique anyone will ever need: as a musicologist, he has at is command every classical trick in the book, as a record producer, he knows how to make piano strings sound like the winds of Hell. He can conjure up anything...
...grass-hopper with muscular dystrophy. It is supposed to be a cage of pipe that with the help of movable clothes racks and imaginative props can smoothly transform itself into the show's nine sets. The rearrangement of schematic sets by openly visible stagehands is a standard cliche of modern direction, especially for Brecht, where we're all supposed to be aware we're in a theater. But Mayer has put too many realistic props in his settings, and too many crossbars in his machinery. The first few of the ten-minute set chages are uproariously funny as everything topples...