Word: modern
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THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE (Decca). It's the bee's knees, the cat's whiskers and 23-skidoo in the razzmatazz sound of the '20s, featuring Julie Andrews and Carol Channing from the sound track. Julie sweetens up the oldies (Poor Butterfly, Baby Face) and puts a high gloss on the show's new tunes (Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Tapioca), while Carol stamps her mark on Jazz Baby and Do It Again...
Canadians know what they are not-not U.S.-American, not British, not French-but they do not seem to know what they are. They suffered from an identity crisis well before modern novelists discovered the condition, and their sense of no-self could fill half a dozen Antonioni movies. "We have achieved the most amazing things," says Prime Minister Lester Pearson, "a few million people opening up half a continent. But we have not yet found a Canadian soul except in time...
...celebrate the British North America Act of 1867, which united four colonies into the nucleus of modern Canada, the whole nation is caught up in a yearlong birthday party, whose centerpiece is Expo 67, the admirable international exhibition that opened in Montreal last week (see MODERN LIVING). Expo's space-age shapes will once and for all blot out the world's clichés about Canada: Mounties bracing blizzards, Eskimos crouched over a kodlik swapping wives, bluff Quebeckers doffing berets to passing priests. Expo 67 spectacularly dramatizes Canada's achievements. If there remains an undercurrent...
...suggested turning modern governing boards into instruments of faculty administration by allowing the faculties to elect a majority of the boards at their schools...
Galbraith also said that the modern university failed to recognize its own economic significance and power. Just "as capital, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, was decisive for economic success, so now the supply of qualified manpower is decisive for economic success," he said...