Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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AMERICA HURRAH. Playwright Jean-Claude van Itallie casts a searing eye and scathing glance at the contemporary American landscape for an inventive, rewarding evening of modern theater...
What then is art? The modern sages offer no solid answers. Says Sherman Lee, director of the Cleveland Museum of Art: "It is an expression of individual sensibilities. A neon Coca-Cola sign is in a very real sense a piece of art. The fact that anyone could make it is more or less beside the point. The fact is that no one else did make it." Says the Museum of Modern Art's Alfred Barr, who is viewed by many as the untiaraed pope of the modern art world: "It is folly to say what is art. Works...
Died. General Holland M. ("Howlin' Mad") Smith, 84, U.S. Marine, who became known as "the father of modern amphibious warfare" when he commanded the Fleet Marine Force in the Pacific during World War II; of a heart attack; in San Diego, Calif. A stocky, sulphurous, onetime Alabama lawyer, Smith personally led the bloody Marine assaults on Tarawa, Saipan and Iwo Jima, and dismissed criticism of heavy casualty rates (3,200 casualties at Tarawa alone) with "Gentlemen, it was our will...
...raising production. He favors land reform, but notes that the time-honored method of cutting up large estates only cuts output. Rather than wasting time trying to increase the productivity of illiterate peasant farmers, the state in the short run should concentrate on inducing large, rich farmers to adopt modern methods...
...picture of the modern campaign which is in All in the Family is nearly as good as that of the old fashioned campaign in The Last Hurrah. If it is less colorful it is because the Electronic Era campaign is less colorful itself than that of the old days. One of the finest and most notable parts of the picture of the new campaign deals with the role of intellectuals in politics...