Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...July 14] is ecclesiastical propaganda and misleading. While the typical "Man of God" is reclining in his air-conditioned office mulling over a sermon that he has delivered a hundred times, the people financially footing the bill are hard at work in field and factory. Any resemblance between the modern preacher and the lowly Nazarene is accidental and incidental...
Psychologist Jung is not. Both in his 1954 article and in a more recent book, A Modern Myth, Jung does not judge or attempt to judge the reality or nonreality of UFOs (unidentified flying objects). He thinks that something is being seen, including refraction effects, but his interest is in the fantastic, quasi-religious cult that has grown around the UFOs. This cult, he thinks, "may be a spontaneous reaction of the subconscious to fear of the apparently insoluble political situation in the world that may lead at any moment to catastrophe. At such times eyes turn heavenwards in search...
...ancient times, Dr. Jung explains, the UFOs might be classed as "gods," but the unconscious of modern man has a different content. Ancient men saw dragons, other monsters and divine beings in the heavens; modern man sees mechanical portents-mysterious spaceships manned by unearthly superhuman creatures...
...modern version of the old player piano that permits the pianist to play it straight or pop a player roll in it and, by merely pumping the pedals, grind out Liberace's version of Prisoner of Love. "The best way to play," says a company official, "is with your bare feet." Price...
Taste for Gingerbread. Some Muscovites were astonished, some were critical, and all who came seemed interested. A group of women construction engineers found the simple, graceful lines of modern architecture distasteful, said they preferred Russian gingerbread. They failed to find esthetic interest in chimneys or fireplaces, passed them off as backward and primitive. All were amazed by the low-cost housing, though some skeptically assumed that it represented a dream of the future, not an existing fact...