Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dedicated Italophile, McDaniel traveled extensively throughout the Italian peninsula and wrote "Roman Private Life and Its Survivals," a book that compared and contrasted modern Italy and ancient Rome...
...rests on sharp class divisions in our society today. To understand this, one must know a little about MOVE's ideology. First and foremost, the group opposes technology. Its members reportedly eat only raw meat, rarely take baths, raise rats and dozens of dogs. MOVE members refuse to use modern plumbing. They hate cars, airplanes, consumer markets and anything else that is a product of modern society. Second, MOVE is not proto-typically radical. They hate capitalism, but they also hate socialist governments that also believe in the worth of science and industry. They only incidentally harp about class conflict...
...Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), the majority leader of the Senate, said Carter deserves the credit for "one of the most significant achievements in modern diplomatic history...
...romance of individual freedom were replacing old certitudes, Piranesi's labyrinthine galleries, infinitely receding arches and end less stairs must have been as profoundly unsettling to his contemporaries as the edge of a flat earth was to the ancients or black holes in space are to modern man. -A.T. Baker
...application of hot plasters. None of this was of much use. Medicines ranged from pills of powdered stag's horn or myrrh and saffron to potions of potable gold. Compounds of rare spices and powdered pearls or emeralds were prescribed, possibly on the theory, not unknown to modern medicine, that a patient's sense of therapeutic value is in proportion to the expense...