Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mentality for the causes of young people's death wishes, Psychiatrist Takeyama argues: the Confucian precept of unquestioning obedience to elders and superiors was deliberately perverted by the Tokugawa Shogunate (which ruled Japan from 1603 to 1868) to maintain a rigid caste system. Obedience is still drummed into modern Japanese youth. But, says Dr. Takeyama: "While it remains a basic influence in their unconscious makeup, it conflicts sharply with their conscious striving to behave in accordance with modern Western ways...
Such religion as there can be in modern life, every Individual will have to salvage from the churches for himself ... I am a pagan . . . the Christian believer lives in a world governed and watched over by God . . . On the other hand, the pagan lives in this world like an orphan...
...orphan no longer. Last Sunday he sat in the congregation of his new church-Manhattan's Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church-and listened attentively to the sermon of its Scottish-born pastor, the Rev. David Read. Afterward, puffing a pipe in the sun-filled living room of his modern apartment on Manhattan's East Side, the onetime pagan explained his new position...
...baseball scouts and wine tasters, they are paid not just to guess, but to guess right.. The best of them admit that it is an uncertain art, often humbly change their judgments. But when an opinion can determine whether a painting is worth $10 or $100,000, some modern experts try to envelop their trade with the accouterments of more exact sciences, strive to test problematic works with a chemist's lofty calm. Some refuse to see the picture itself, arguing that an emotional response may confuse their judgment, and rely on analysis of paint and photographic blowups...
With science pretty much out of this world, and politics "in the realm of surrealism and fantasy, doesn't modern art loom large as a most real and reasonable, concrete and most reputable human activity?" demanded U.S. Abstractionist Ad Reinhardt. No. 15 (opposite) is one of Reinhardt's more seeable creations: usually his colors merge and vibrate so elusively as to cause eyestrain. The 9-ft.-high canvas is also a standout exhibit at what may be the most provocative art show now hanging: "Acquisitions 1957-58" at the Albright Art Gallery in Buffalo...