Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Because of the heavy reactor and the extremely heavy shielding required to protect the crew, a nuclear plane would be too big, too heavy and too slow for modern warfare...
...Callas ordered no candles for her 35th birthday cake, instead plopped on the pastry one tiny light bulb, at the climactical moment puckered up for a symbolic breath, simultaneously pressed a button that throttled the glow. Explained her dutiful husband, Industrialist Giovanni Meneghini: "She thinks it's more modern...
Tapies, brightest young (35) man to come out of Spain since those electric uncles of modern art, Picasso, Dali and Miro, allowed that his picture represented "nothing at all." His pigments were mixed with "something like cement-it's almost like relief work." La Pintura does in fact suggest the Costa Brava's austere spaciousness-rocks, sea and fishing boats...
...control, Heineman went after the much bigger but shaky North Western, was invited in by the board as chairman. A few hours after taking over, Heineman left on a six-week, 9,000-mile tour along North Western's tracks. He learned that what was needed was radical modernization. He chopped the North Western's managerial deadwood, hired bright young railroad pros. He brought in modern bookkeeping machines and mechanized track-laying equipment, completely dieselized the line. He also became the foremost critic of union featherbedding in rails, trimmed his own payrolls from...
...what of Yurii Zhivago? He too stands for Russia. He also stands for martyrdom (Critic Edmund Wilson notes that Yurii means George and perhaps suggests St. George, martyred under Diocletian). Above all, Zhivago is Christlike in his suffering and in his promise of life; his story is a modern passion...