Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Closed since 1954, when the building's inadequate structure was threatening damage to the impressionist masterpieces already hanging there, the Jeu de Paume was reopened as a completely redone museum, with the most modern lighting and humidity control, and hung with no less than 288 of the Louvre's freshly cleaned prize impressionists (see color pages). The opening was a tonic for French pride. Said France-Soir: "At last Paris has a living museum...
...first winner on a bush-league track in Lemon, S. Dak. Just three years later the wiry little jock won his first race on a major track, and he went right on to boot home 300 more winners before that racing season ran out-the first of the modern riders to break past the 300 winners mark...
...several months before the recession started. "We had become spoiled," says San Francisco Retailer Harry Jackson. "There was very little urgency or excitement in our field until two years ago, because houses were going up so fast that we had a built-in market. The only creative part was modern furniture, and that was mostly Scandinavian...
...quarter of a century, Philosopher Maritain is familiar with America's authentic face and voice; yet he remains enough of a stranger to stress truths that are overlooked or taken for granted by many Americans. Probably Maritain's central point: "[Americans are] the least materialist among the modern peoples which have attained the industrial stage...
...materialist standards and finds that the label simply will not fit: "America is not egoist; for the common consciousness of America, egoism is shameful . . . There is no avarice in the American cast of mind. The American people are neither squeamish nor hypocritical about the importance of money in the modern world . . . The average European cares about money as well as the average American, but he tries to conceal the fact, for he has been accustomed to associating money with avarice." Where, asks Maritain, is there another nation so free with its money for charity? And to the charge that...