Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...show covers and destroys a good number of modern-age foibles, but you are apt to find the law student next to you laughing in the strangest places...
...stage a "quality rape" of girl so that boy may save her and their marriage may be lasting. This results in immense confusion, but the evils of the world and the power of Love are established on the way to a happy ending. The Fantasticks keeps all this modern by making it sweet (so that it is campy), and by giving it a dreamlike quality so that the audience can think back to some "better time," even if they never knew it. "Try to remember...
...working outside the house in bakeries, dairies or shops), sharing in the upbringing of the children or going out to movies and clubhouses. Families learn to tolerate a certain amount of odd behavior, and Geel has been remarkably free of mishaps. Thanks in part to the use of modern tranquilizers, there has been no serious outburst of violence by a patient for at least 15 years...
...gentle rhythm of life have been almost the only real treatment at Geel. Now Matheussen is planning to set up several neighborhood treatment centers where patients will meet regularly for group therapy, schooling and vocational training. This additional therapy may be crucial to Geel's survival because modern life is at last changing the town's stable, close-knit medieval patterns. Factory jobs are replacing the farm work that is suitable for many patients. Trucks and cars thunder through the square, their drivers not accustomed to watching for dazed people who forget to look both ways at corners...
...Already, modern basic oxygen furnaces produce about 73% of Japan's steel, compared with around 20% in the U.S. and 10% in Europe. The combine will create a large pool of capital resources for investment in still more up-to-date equipment. It will also be a formidable competitor in international markets. Last year Japan produced 74 million tons of crude steel-exceeded only by the U.S.'s 131 million tons and Russia's 118 million-and one-fifth of the output was exported...