Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ears. For Turkey's 26 million peasants, who represent 80% of the country's population, Demirel is forming cooperatives, liberalizing agricultural credits, promoting the use of fertilizers and modern farm tools, setting up an agricultural college at Erzureem in eastern Anatolia, and building three dams for irrigation and rural power that will help double the country's electrical capacity...
...Streisand show or the Carol Channing show or the Sinatra show that season. Small wonder that the Motion Picture Herald poll of exhibitors, to be published next month, will name Andrews as the No. 1 box-office star of the year.* She has already completed her fifth movie, Thoroughly Modern Millie, a Boy Friend-like musical about the '20s, and will soon start Star, a biography of Gertrude Lawrence ("Their lives are somewhat similar," notes Director Robert Wise. "Gertie was also a product of music halls and a broken home"). She hopes one day to do a show with...
...something that in the past has hindered rather than helped man's self-development. The church, he says, should concede that many of its teachings about God-the superjudge, for example, who mechanistically rewards good and punishes evil in the afterlife-are immature and unthinkable to the modern mind. One key concept that Dewart regards as disposable is the Christian conviction, derived from Hellenic philosophy, that God is to be understood in terms of being...
...aimless, the lines are merely cute. Incredible that it was written by one of Britain's most brilliant playwrights, Harold Pinter (The Caretaker, The Homecoming). Did he do it to make money? No doubt, but he also did it to make propaganda. Editing the facts of life in modern Germany to fit an evident prejudice, Pinter blandly but incessantly insinuates that all Germans are still Nazis at heart and can hardly wait to go to heil again...
...Modern generals win paper monuments. Roman triumphs and imperial purple are out; the dead great don't even get purple prose. Olive-drab words backed by properly inspected facts do the honors. Today's armies, those huge agglomerations of men and machines required for warfare by great industrial states, still need platoon leaders and even heroes; but above all they need a military bureaucrat, a lord of the files...