Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard Corporation has approved preliminary architectual plans that would make Mather House a combination of high and low rise modern buildings...
...gorgeous farce and produces sight gags to match the early silent two-reelers. The players are perfect, and Dustin Hoffman is pluperfect. Apart from turning Harold Pinter upside down and dispelling all the potential menace in laughter, Playwright Livings achieves one added distinction: he has done an anatomy of modern mass man. As the stereotype has it, this is the man who will be reduced to electronic button pushing and social homogeneity, tutored to spend his leisure time with Shakespeare and symphonies. Brose shows no such inclinations. Industrial technology is a fascinating toy to him, and he is the contented...
...Kitsch off the stage" when he was made co-director of the family-run Bayreuth Festival in 1951. He began by throwing out all the traditional trappings-animal skins, horned helmets, swan boats and ponderous sets-replacing them with simple robes and stark, dimly lit slabs designed to evoke modern psychological drama; the old guard cried, "Götter-dämmerung!," but critics and audiences hailed "the new Bayreuth style" which soon established itself in opera companies around the world...
Died. Florence Nightingale Graham, 82, who as Elizabeth Arden made a beautiful fortune; of a heart attack; in Manhattan (see MODERN LIVING...
...Funds, Long Terms. Unlike commercial bankers, who take deposits and specialize in short-term loans, modern merchant bankers are intermediaries between those who have big money to invest and those who need it, often for long terms. They finance entrepreneurs and foreign governments by selling bonds or other securities to the public or to such wealthy institutional investors as insurance companies, pension funds, and even the Church of England...