Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...courses will deal with modern stage comedy, covering major play-wrights from Oscar Wilde to T. S. Eliot, Kronenberger said yesterday. He listed Shaw, Chekhov, Pirandello, Synge, and O'Casey as among other authors he intends to discuss...
...fronts and gardens from Arkansas to Albuquerque. Arkla alone has sold 22,000 in six months, and this year the industry's total is expected to top 300,000. In North Little Rock, the CAA approved a private airport's plans to install gas lamps along its modern runways. In Amarillo, Texas, where gas is cheap, gas lamps have appeared along highways and byways. The lanes of a new residential development now under construction are being lit by gas. Nonglaring, the gaslights are not only more economical than electric lights, but have another decided advantage outdoors: they...
...against a proposal to set up gambling facilities in St. Mark's Square. Once he aimed a shaft of wit at the scantily clad tourists who swarm the city in the summertime: "People need not come to Italy in furs or woollens. They can come dressed in that modern American silk, fresh and soft, which is a veritable refrigerator at low cost. Italy, on the other hand, is not on the equator, and even there, by the way, lions wear their coats, and crocodiles are lined with their most precious hides...
...ceilings and walls" in churches where his father preached. Working with several of the common themes of medieval art (the Black Plague, the Wise Fool, the Night Journey, Death Sawing at the Tree of Life, the Game of Chess with Death), Moviemaker Bergman has attempted "to express the modern dilemma" in the form of a medieval morality play-a tall order which he is seldom able to fill. The Gothic spirit had the natural beauty and mysteriousness of a growing thing. Bergman's Gothicisms, on the contrary, are as artificial and complex as paper roses, and spiritually they have...
...prepare him. His cousin's wife has run away to her father's tribe in the backwoods and Jean-Marie has been picked as just the right man to go and fetch her back. Off he bicycles into the jungle, trying to feel like a modern conqueror but uneasy at the thought of the reception he may get from the savage backwoodsmen-an uneasiness that deepens when he arrives in the middle of a football match played with a wooden ball and 22 throwing-spears...