Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Congratulations on the brilliant special report on China by Michael Demarest and Carl Mydans [Oct. 23]. A perfect blending of the pictorial and reportorial, making one feel the pulse of modern China, whose doors are now being reopened to the rest of the world...
Night after night, just before bedtime for federal prisoners, two Mafia triggermen walked up to the modern twelve-story Metropolitan Correction Center near New York's city hall. With unidentified inside help, locked doors opened mysteriously for the gunmen, who took up positions in the hall outside one particular cell. Tossing restlessly on the hard pallet behind the bars was chunky Carmine ("Lillo") Galante, 68, who once aspired to become the Mafia's capo di tutti capi (boss of bosses). As lights dimmed in the cell block, the two armed men settled down for a nightlong vigil. Their...
...many anthropologists to be the long-sought "missing link" between man and ape. But in 1953, after application of new analytic techniques to thefamous skull, the ruse was finally revealed: the Piltdown man, as the fossil was dubbed, was a fraud. It consisted of nothing more than fragments of modern human skulls mingled with portions of a contemporary ape jaw with teeth doctored to give them the appearance of antiquity. As the years passed, scientists abandoned hopes of ever identifying the prankster...
Robert H. Chapman, director of the Loeb and professor of English, currently teaches English 160A "Modern Drama," which is similar to a modern drama course Brustein proposed as part of his undergraduate program...
Glass said modern music needs audience participation for its completion. "The problem in music is not to indicate what you want, but that it gets indicated too easily," Glass said...