Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Modern languages, he says, are another of his major educational concerns. Cambridge has received some NDEA money along this line, but it hasn't decided how to use it. The city is "just beginning to wake up" to the importance of modern languages, Barnes adds...
Gross, who pioneered the way for modern heart surgery in 1938 by performing the first successful operation on an inborn cardiovascular defect, is the first surgeon to receive the $2,500 award in the seven years since its endowment...
...Modern Retailer...
...since then has redecorated nearly 376 of the company's 566 stores, air-conditioned 73 of them, opened more than 296 new catalogue stores in growing areas. To increase volume quickly, he bought control of four independent stores in the Chicago area, opened some 20 new modern retail stores in major shopping areas and equipped them with consumer-drawing features that would have shocked Sewell Avery: check-cashing booths, hunting and fishing license departments, gourmet and shoe-repair shops. By the end of 1958, Barr had reduced Ward's cash hoard from $327 million to $94.7 million. Says...
Primacy of the Image. The volume suggests why critics rank him with such movers and shapers of modern verse as Rilke, Valéry, Eliot and Yeats. There is a family resemblance linking Pasternak to these Western poets, but it is that of a distant cousin, not a brother. An occasional image carries the haunting echo of kinship. For example, one poem of Pasternak's begins...