Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FESTIVAL (NET, 9-10 p.m.). The story of "The Talgai Skull" tells of a fossilized skull that could be the missing link between prehistoric and modern...
Despite this Napoleonomania, Frenchmen are divided over this most famous Frenchman. Conservatives and Catholics admire Napoleon as the man who ended revolutionary chaos., transformed France into a modern state, reopened the churches, established the bourgeoisie as the ruling class. Communists praise him for destroying feudalism throughout Europe. On the other hand, royalists, socialists, schoolteachers and intellectuals despise him. Royalists regard the self-made Emperor as a "usurper." The others consider him the betrayer of the revolution, a bloodthirsty tyrant whose invasions of Spain and Russia decimated French youth...
...short, the year of ecology, a word derived from the Greek oikos, meaning "house." In modern usage, ecology is the study of nature's house or environment, including man's complex dependence on a bewildering variety of other creatures and life processes...
Because of their grim warnings about man's environmental abuses, the once sheltered ecologists are turning into modern Jeremiahs. Who are they? In part, they are the descendants of yesterday's conservationists, who harried the U.S. into setting up national parks and wildlife sanctuaries. But there are significant differences. The old conservationists were nature lovers and esthetes who often seemed devoted to fencing off nature for themselves. Today's ecologists are scientists who know that all nature is interconnected and that any intervention has far-reaching effects. They are moved to action not only by considerations...
...will continue her study of the confrontation of modern and traditional values in the Indian city of Bhubaneswar. Miss Du Bois will also retain her appointment as Curator of South Asian Ethnology in the Peabody Museum...