Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fukien district of South China, who may not be a madman but hardly qualifies as a preserver of the peace, sent crashing out an entirely different message, addressed to the Nationalist Chinese garrison entrenched on Quemoy Island: "No military works can avoid complete destruction under the assault of our modern army and air force . . . The landing on Quemoy is imminent . . . Surrender...
...techniques left him uncertain; after the first performance of his war-troubled (1935) Symphony No. 4, he said, "I do not know whether I like it,-but it is what I meant." Several years later, after conducting it himself, he revised his opinion: "Well, gentlemen, if that's modern music, you can have...
...important duties: procreation, sexual relations and the obligations of family loyalty. To keep all three "in one frame of moral reference is an art man has had a long fight to learn, and must still steadily fight to preserve." However difficult the balance may be, the new freedom that modern methods of contraception brings to "sexuality in marriage in our time is ... a gate to a new depth and joy in personal relationships between husband and wife. At a time when so much in our culture tends to depersonalize life-to erode and dissolve the old clear outlines of human...
...rgens, curling back his lip and swirling his eyes as he exults, "I sniff battle-I'm alive again!" accomplishes the tricky task of making Actress Maurey's summation of him seem just right, and somehow regrettable: "There are no men left in this bleak, awful, modern world like...
...Humbert's trying to seduce his own stepdaughter-the fumbling, phony-paternal tenderness, the elaborate scheming, the agony of longing which Author Nabokov manages to make at once ludicrous, terrible and utterly convincing. But in the end, as Humbert tells the event, "it was she who seduced me . . . Modern coeducation, juvenile mores, the campfire racket and so forth had utterly and hopelessly depraved...