Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...look around Blodgett symbolized the physical changes. My memory clicked back to the big Princeton-Harvard swim meet in the antiquated IAB pool, and how it signalled the competitive end of a facility steeped in history. In stark contrast, Blodgett is almost too modern and impersonal...
...court added that it "recognized a general right in all persons to refuse medical treatment in appropriate circumstances," based on the constitutional right to privacy which modern courts have interpreted in the last 15 years. It also accepted the current ethical practice that providing comfort for a dying patient is often in his own best interest...
...Elizabeth as she took down a volume of Thomas Mann from a library shelf; he is 30, she is 18, and one day with the same carelessness he brought to their relationship he leapt to his death from a bridge. Or Alex A., working at the Museum of Modern Art, living in his studio, "a snob, a dandy, and a Marxist." An old friend, "very handsome and a little depressed by nature, but anxious to please and in this pleasantness somewhat impersonal. For this reason he was doomed to more fornication than he wished." Other, more working class men follow...
Last year Klaus Hildebrand, professor of Modern History at the University of Muenster in Westphalia, the Federal Republic of Germany, turned down an unofficial offer for the chair and three years ago Juan Linz, professor of Sociology at Yale, also turned down an offer...
...first and favorite cover portrait (of Jawaharlal Nehru). TIME'S most prolific cover artist, Chaliapin was also its swiftest: he was able to complete a portrait in seven to 15 hours, usually working from a photograph. A realistic painter, Chaliapin was an implacable and voluble foe of modern abstract art: "I want a linoleum design on the floor, not in a picture on the wall...