Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...progresses through classical cultures, medieval times, the Renaissance, and returns to today. One recent morning began with a student-prepared exposition of Greek architecture, shown over closed-circuit television in five classrooms. After that, a social-studies class compared the quality of democracy in ancient Greece and in modern-day Mississippi; an art class took up classical sculpture; a philosophy class studied the thought of Socrates; an English class discussed Sophocles' Antigone. In each course students tried to determine how the Greeks expressed their attitudes toward ultimate values...
...opening unit on "The World Today," the social-studies teachers deal with man's fears of nuclear war, poverty and lost identity. English classes analyze contemporary writings on violence, brotherhood, situation ethics and alienation. The art and music teachers seek to define the values implicit in modern painting, commercial art, jazz and even folk rock...
...since its founding as a Methodist theological seminary in 1869. (B.U. is still considered a Methodist-affiliated school, but gets no support from the church.) Under Harold Case, the university expanded from a modest school with buildings scattered all across town to a bustling university concentrated on a strikingly modern 45-acre campus. Strong in medicine and law, B.U. is no longer mainly a commuter school, and more than half of its students come from out side Massachusetts...
...modern technology provide an equally good wooden song box? A few violinists say yes, most say no. In recent years, scientists have studied the art of violinmaking in minute detail; scores of fiddles have been scraped, Xrayed, dismembered, chemically treated, dehumidified, baked, boiled, bombarded with sound waves, measured by oscilloscopes and spectrum recorders - all to little avail. Though Strads have been copied to within one-thousandth of an inch of the original, the sound never measures up. The reasons for this, as diverse and elusive as music itself, constitute a mystery and mystique that is unmatched...
...experts, is far more important. "A man reaches his prime around 40, a violin at about 100," explains Cremona Luthier Pietro Sgarabotto. Thus many luthiers insist that old violins are better only because they are older, that a century from now the fiddles being made by such modern masters as Sacconi, and Carl Becker Sr. of Chicago, will equal the fabled Strad. That, of course, remains to be heard...