Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...delegation, which is visiting universities across the country, will meet with representatives of harvard's East Asian studies program in order to determine "if there is some way Harvard can participate in the student exchange," Dwight H. Perkins, professor of Modern China Studies, said yesterday...
...dress: all the painters involved were 20th century city dwellers, they had read Freud and Jung, some of them (notably Pollock) had been in analysis, and they were well aware that the "savage mind" cannot be mimicked by an act of will. The only form of primitivism available to modern man, their paintings argue in different voices, is the unconscious. Just as the young bourgeois intellectuals who formed surrealism turned their revolt against their own class into something like a religious principle, so the New York painters declared their separation from American materialism by means of an impassioned sense...
...guarantee his pressmen only five straight-time shifts a week, a deal that he estimates could save up to $ 1 million a year in overtime. The number of shifts is central to the key issue in the pressmen's strike-how many workers are truly needed to man modern, high-speed newspaper presses -though the final answer to that question will depend on the News and Times settlements...
...Teammate Howard Bahr of Brigham Young University asked Muncie high school students of 1977 the same public opinion questions the Lynds asked 1924 students, and got much the same answers. Last year 50% of the students agreed that "the Bible is a sufficient guide to all problems of modern life," 78% said the U.S. is "unquestionably the best country in the world," and 47% (precisely the same figure as in 1924) said, "It is entirely the fault of a man himself if he does not succeed." Though today's students are more tolerant, say the researchers: "We have...
...Middletown III researchers, working on a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, are still two years away from presenting a final report. Their central finding, however, seems clear: almost all the social forces shaping life in modern-day Muncie were already present in 1924. It amounts to a startling message about the nation: that American life has not changed very much in 50 years -or at least the kind of American life lived in a town like Muncie. The Lynds, describing the wrenching dislocations that propelled America from a somnolent agrarianism to a modern industrialism, said that...