Word: modern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brustein would not touch with a 20-foot curtain rod is Clifford Odets, author of the Huntington's latest offering, Awake and Sing. Odets was one of the most prominent American playwrights of the 1930s, working with the Group Theater, the idealistic, left-wing venture that helped bring the modern theater to the United States. Odets first hit the big time with his Socialist one-act, Waiting for Lefty, which supposedly had audiences on their feet, yelling "Strike! Strike...
...play is stately in pace, complex in structure, with all sorts of subplots and developments over three long acts. As Yiddische Chekhov, it dwells on the domineering mother, the sniveling new wealth, and the slow death of the beautiful and the valuable under the crushing weight of modern avarice. Naturally, it's also about as subtle as a flying mallet: when someone flashes a life insurance policy, for example, it's the symbolic equivalent of a large black raven alighting on his head...
Assistant Professor John P. Carriero, who currently teaches Philosophy 8, "History of Modern Philosophy," and Philosophy 120, "The Rationalist," will replace Jarrett as the department's head tutor...
Saudi Arabia was then a poor and barren desert kingdom, lagging far behind the West in development. But Dr. Khashoggi was determined to give his son a modern education. Through a timely investment, he was able to send Adnan to Victoria College, a British-run school in Egypt that was the cradle of leadership for the elite of the Middle East. Khashoggi's classmates included two princes who would become Kings, Faisal II of Iraq and Hussein of Jordan. There Khashoggi learned the rudiments of dealmaking. He found out that a Libyan schoolmate's father wanted to buy sheets...
...Modern contract surrogacy emerged around 1976. Noel Keane, a Dearborn, Mich., attorney who helps run the infertility center that is involved in the Baby M. case, handled one of the first such arrangements. "I know there are thousands of people who want it and need it," Keane once wrote of surrogate motherhood, "including the surrogate mothers...