Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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AMERICA HURRAH. In three short plays, Jean-Claude van Itallie unravels some skeins of modern life and finds that they lead to confusion, satiety and destruction...
MADE IN ITALY. An assortment of scenes-some merely gentle sketches, some with stings in their tales-that portray modern-day Italy and the Italians. Nanni Loy (Four Days of Naples) directs a fine cast that includes Anna Magnani, Alberto Sordi, Virna Lisi and Catherine Spaak...
...rockets." Guggenheim, already a spirited benefactor of aeronautical progress, was convinced. During the 1930s, the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation aided Goddard's work with $190,000 in grants, hardly enough to fuel a Saturn rocket today, but then enough to permit the Father of Modern Rocketry to build sophisticated systems that became the basis of America's postwar entry into the Space...
...Board Language Achievement Test do not (contrary to your report in Monday's paper) have to "take and pass two full courses in a language to graduate from Harvard." They have to get 560 on the test we use at Harvard, which for French, German, and Spanish is the Modern Language Association Classroom Test, the scores of which are equated with the CEEB scores. How he upgrades his ability is a matter of his own choice. Some go to Europe. Most take a semester or more in our language department. No one has to "take and pass two full courses...
...good" doing of the American side. Let us suppose that in military operations such as Cedar Falls, the "allied forces" take every civilian out of his or her village safely, raze the village down as they did since it may be Viet Cong headquarter, then provide a nice modern house for each inhabitant along with all sorts of American "goodies" after the operation. Let us assume that if all this were true then what will the Vietnamese think...