Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...modern American is a light-year removed from the provincial prototypes who gave the nation one of its richest lodes of comedy and satire. The hayseeds-a word as quaint as Gotham-can no longer be sold the radiator in their hotel rooms. Dodsworth would probably call his p.r. man to get tickets for a hit show, and Eugene Gant, far from being intimidated by the problem of white flannels, would have his Dacron boxer shorts laundered by the staff of the Americana Hotel. Sinclair Lewis' The Man Who Knew Coolidge would be hospitalized for logorrhea long before...
...John Steinbeck observed: "From start to finish, I found no strangers." Says Historian Daniel J. Boorstin: "Much of what people call provincialism is really a way of attacking this country for not being like Europe, or the Midwest for not being like New York. As a consequence of modern technology and higher standards of living, there has been an attenuation, a thinning out, of the American contrasts between experiences. This makes the idea of provincialism obsolete...
...most hip of critics has had two thoughts about. Some of the most enterprising U.S. opera companies, who have scooped the Met time and again in importing distinguished foreign stars from Callas to Caballe, are in Dallas, Chicago and San Francisco. The Louisville Orchestra has recorded more works by modern U.S. composers than any other orchestra. The town of Columbus, Ind. (pop. 27,500), has a church and bank designed by Eero Saarinen, a school by San Francisco's John Carl Warnecke and a town library being designed by New York's I. M. Pei. And Saarinen...
...Asia is aimed at precisely that second challenge. "The young Filipino looks around him," says one old Manila hand, "and remembers that his grandfather spoke Spanish; yet his parents and he speak English better than Tagalog. He sees the conglomeration of Spanish and native architecture, spruced up with American modern. His system of government is tailored after that of the U.S.; yet he does not feel truly American. So he stands there, bewildered, asking himself: 'What am I? Do I belong to Asia, the Pacific? Or am I closer to the West than either of these...
...years of publication, motive has consistently taken the stand that its college readers were adults and has given them adult, avant-garde fare. Never preachy in tone, the magazine has nonetheless assumed that religion is relevant and has tried to apply a critical Christian intelligence to the interests of modern youth, from biochemistry to the Beatles...