Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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VIRTUALLY everything that is known of the Soviet military is, to a large extent, what the Soviets want the world to know. But better intelligence and modern science are helping to make the West less dependent on the Soviet's handout information and on the gleanings of detail-dogging Western military attaches in Moscow. Examples...
...army is already well deployed along the Soviet-satellite borders in the west (for potential use against the West or the satellites) and beyond the virgin lands in the east (for potential use against the West or the Chinese Communists). Even so, she is building a big modern fleet of jet and turboprop transport planes-potential troop carriers...
Eliot himself, one of his play's harshest critics, has deplored its not fusing Greek story with modern one, its exalting "versification at the expense of plot and character." And all too often The Family Reunion seems remote just where it should be intense, seems to be abstraction without even the vividness of allegory. Bloodless, it fails to cut quite to the bone; it is only those inwardly dead in the play who ever seem outwardly alive...
...unexpected increase in enrollment has occurred in the Romance, Slavic, and Germanic language departments this year, Harry T. Levin '33, Director of the Modern Language Center, reported yesterday. "The increase is part of a national trend," and provides evidence of a "general educational self-searching," he said...
Stuart P. Atkins, professor of German, said that there is a "general change in the pattern of secondary school and college education," under which "languages have suddenly acquired an independent character." He added that the change in English Department policy permitted Honors students to take an advanced modern language course...