Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vast ceiling of weathered planks sags slightly, tent fashion, from the central spine. From outside, the stadium looks as strange as a beached sea tortoise. Inside, its wide-open spaciousness, wintry light, and effect of weightlessness are exhilarating. The nation's foremost young architect, who has created such modern wonders as the General Motors Technical Center (TIME, July 2, 1956), Saarinen may well be right in calling this latest effort "perhaps the finest thing that we have done...
...Diane Hartman (Birdwell calls her 22) in that white silk rig, he has concocted some accompanying ad copy to the effect that Hollywood is empty of female glamour-except, of course, for Diane, who is described thus: "An untamed animal who has learned the art of song, mastered the modern primitive dance. A 22-year-old nymphet free of fingerprints-a desirable but unattainable, unchained barefoot wench, uninvolved personally and professionally. Now-on the Hollywood block to the highest bidder...
...Plows. Graves goes one better than mere verbal theorizing-he has pictorially theorized the original tablets in collaboration with Artist James Metcalf, who engraves them in a modern version of sub-Mycenaean style. He arranges his pictures first in the order in which the Bible has them-four sequences of nine, each sequence running from right to left. Then he arranges them in what he postulates as the original order-four sequences of nine, running alternately from right to left, then left to right, the order known from the Greek as boustrophedon, "as the ox plows." For instance, he says...
...most part, meritocracy works; the upper class knows for the first time in history that it is superior in all ways to the lower; and the intellectual proletariat is encouraged to accept a "just inferiority" and develop a liking for sports. Modern wonders abound in Young's Utopia; the morning rocket leaves regularly for the moon, and England's southwestern counties have been covered with concrete for the convenience of motorists. But even as the author writes, the end is in sight. A general strike is called by a fusion party of disgruntled old men, trade unionists dimly...
...Seventh Seal (Swedish). A beautifully photographed attempt to "express the modern dilemma" in terms of the medieval morality play-not everyone's cup of mead, but a powerful brew...