Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WORLD TREATING YOU? manages to be blisteringly funny in the modern British fashion as it peppers hypocrisy, respectability, caste and class snobbery and native Blimpcompoops. Two insuperable zanies, Peter Bayliss and Patricia Routledge, volley comic antics back and forth with the precision of a finals match at Wimbledon...
...group of authoritative American surgeons who came to the Soviet Union at the same time as Dr. Hall and visited similar institutions, yet their impressions were different. For example, according to Dr. Richard H. Overholt, director of the Overholt Thoracic Clinic of Boston, Soviet surgeons use "all of the modern techniques that we have witnessed in other countries...
...khakis and braided caps worn by French Army officers. If he'd had his way, the army would be a loose assemblage of carping individualists, all obeying' only their own inner dictates. One would not expect such reasoning from Charles de Gaulle, supreme authority figure of modern French history. Yet the Old Soldier has now issued an edict that requires every soldier to reason why before he blindly follows orders that "constitute crimes and infractions against the state's security, the constitution or public order...
...through history. It is not enough to demythologize and then throw away. "You can't present content naked," says Father John Dunne of Notre Dame. "It's always in a form. Modern man loves myth as much as his ancestors. It's just that OUF own myths are not as easy to see." In the same way, it is too easy an answer to dismiss the Trinitarian formula as mere outdated symbol. "Never say only a symbol," Paul Tillich perennially warned his pupils-and his life work is testimony to the importance of symbol to the human...
...judged that since Picasso's famous Guernica, the brutal 1937 mural depicting the aerial bombardment of civilians during the Spanish Civil War, "Picasso's art has ceased being indispensable." London's Sunday Times Art Critic John Russell acknowledges that Picasso is still "the perpetual president of modern art," then adds: "This indisputably great artist has sacrificed too much in recent years to immediacy, to the demands of a voracious and often childlike nature, and to the applause of people who are likely to seem, in the cool gaze of history, to have been too easily pleased...