Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John Holt, educational theorist and author of the widely acclaimed book "How Children Fail," will talk and answer questions on modern education at 8 p.m. tonight in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room...
...first full-length stage work, Playwright Owens, a 30-year-old Manhattan housewife, seesaws insecurely between the scenic jungle onstage and the psychic jungle in 20th century man. Apparently beginning as a psychological probe of modern woman's instinct for the male jugular, Beclch ends as a form of social parable on black Africa's expulsion of cruel, exploiting whites. Liberally scatological in its language, the play uses four-letter words as fashionable credentials. They seem to show that the author can spit the raw verbal gristle of experience at the audience coolly, and strictly for laughs...
...puffing her way through Hello, Dolly! on Broadway at well over $3,000 a week. On the other hand, she has made more films than Cary Grant and has been a star for almost four decades. So it seemed appropriate last week when Manhattan's Gallery of Modern Art awarded her a "Tribute"-a film festival of her finest hour-and-a-halfs-even though such honors are usually reserved for the likes of Garbo, Chaplin or yesterday's avant-garde directors. Ginger Rogers was happy for the attention, but she was aware of the anachronism. After viewing...
...PARICÁ is another snuff, ground and inhaled by the equally primitive Piaroa Indians of southern Venezuela. It has several active ingredients, two containing substances of a type found in brain tissue and another chemically similar to "psychic energizers." So, by centuries-old accident, the Piaroa anticipated modern psychiatrists who only recently discovered that by using several classes of drugs together, they can achieve a synergistic effect-one that is greater than the sum of the separate components. The effects of paricá are little known; no one but the tribal medicine man is allowed...
Mark Twain may have enthused that "the Creator made Italy from designs by Michelangelo," but at least one Italian figures that the country's history-choked metropolitan mélange is not at all the thing for a modern industrial nation. Importing the "new towns" concept from other European countries and the U.S., Milanese Financier Renxo Zingone, 58, is pushing a somewhat heretical "desire to build cities in a rational, non-chaotic fashion"-and at a profit...