Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...progression of photography as an art form and a medium of communication. His books include History of Photography, The Daguerrotype in America, and Airborne Camera. The 70-year-old Newhall has also been involved with photographic study at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York...
Watson's citation reads: Precocious investigator, uninhibited author, inspiring teacher: Harvard celebrates a modern biological discovery that ranks with those of Darwin and Mendel, and heralds as new and revolutionary era in the life sciences...
Cheever's novels and short stories, while statements of traditional morality, explore universal themes within the setting of latter-day America. A master of satire, Cheever most often studies the effects of modern pressures on the contemporary morality of the suburban middle-class, yet he never loses a sense of warmth and compassion toward his subjects. He sharpened his ear for dialogue in years of short-story writing for The New Yorker, among other publications, and has since graduated to novels, including The Wapshot Chronical and last year's impressive best-seller, Falconer...
These magnificent works reflect far more about Cro-Magnon man than his artistic ability. Indistinguishable from modern man either in brain capacity or physical appearance, he was clearly using his artistic skills to embellish a culture of a richness and complexity that is only beginning to be plumbed by scholars...
...large numbers of highly trained and educated individuals. As Americans felt called upon to play an active role in world affairs, area studeis were started to provide new information about non-Western cultures (notably the USSR and China); a recognition of the importance of science and technology in the modern world led to the massive amounts of federal aid pumped into university research facilities. These were substantial achievements in the field, even if they were won at the cost of increasingly heavy dependence on federal funds and some confuction as to what purposes education should serve...