Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CASTLE TO CASTLE, by Louis-Ferdinand Celine, is the final novel in a crazed autobiographical trilogy by the demented French physician-genius who apparently viewed the body of modern society with complete revulsion...
...Sullivan show last month, the management of the Plaza Hotel's Persian Room signed her up for a three-week stint next winter. One more appearance on the Sullivan show is scheduled this season, and Broadway Producer David Black called Brooks and said he wanted her for his modern musical version of Alice in Wonderland next fall. "Obviously," says Brooks, "the Man Upstairs wants all this for our Rozzie...
While the four-letter word under discussion has become commonplace in the works of many modern novelists, its use is far from accepted in high school English classes. Any teacher who makes it the theme of a classroom exercise can expect a strong reaction - if not from the students themselves, at least from their parents. Which is what happened to Mrs. Timbrook, 36, a truck driver's wife and the mother of nine children, who teaches at Lamphere High School in Madison Heights, Mich...
Young Novelist Thomas Keneally showed his talents in Bring Larks and Heroes (TIME, Aug. 16), which bore on the special subject of colonial servitude. Despite its title, Three Cheers for the Paraclete is less special. Modern Sydney, where the story takes place, is not remote; indeed, its population, one-sixth Irish Catholic, lends the quality of life there something of the familiar, built-in tensions of Boston or Philadelphia...
...Meanings of God, and it is his undoing. He explains the work as "a history of the God of the institutions, pulpits, political parties and wreath-laying generals. It is a history of the abuse of the notion of God and of its place in the motives of modern...