Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minded aristocrat who wrote scornfully of his countrymen: "The Germans are responsible for the neurosis called nationalism from which Europe suffers." To Schlechta and his colleagues, the new Nietzsche is the seer whose volcanic revulsion against what James Gibbons Huneker once called the Seven Deadly Virtues furnished existentialists of modern France and Germany with much of their original inspiration, and whose evocations of the darker side of human consciousness lighted the way to some of the first insights of Freud and psychoanalysis...
...most high school physics texts and teaching techniques lag as much as half a century behind the times. Worse yet, physics is usually presented as a series of unrelated subjects, e.g., mechanics, heat, electricity. The committee's ambitious goal: a program that explores and relates such basics of modern physics as the wave concept and submicroscopic particles...
...five colleges and institutions around the country, get paid $75 a week (plus travel money and $15 a week for each dependent) by the National Science Foundation. By 1960, Committee Chairman Dr. Jerrold R. Zacharias hopes to have trained an army of 10,000 teachers able to bring modern physics to 600,000 pupils a year. The prospect is enough to make Dr. Zacharias chuckle: "I think the program should be classified. If the Russians find out, they will steal it from...
This week, in Rome's spacious National Gallery of Modern Art, a show of the work of bearded, tormented Jackson Pollock is still creating a commotion, though he has been dead for a year and a half. But even as the dead artist scores abroad, Manhattan is getting an exciting look (in the Martha Jackson Gallery) at seventeen oils painted by Lee Krasner after her husband's death...
...bitings not, apparently, to be traced to any natural agency. Many of them have persecuted clergymen, as in the case of Methodism's founder, John Wesley, who was an interested observer of knockings, rappings and agitated warming pans at Epworth Rectory in 1716-17. Last week a modern poltergeist seemed to be loose in a pious Roman Catholic household at Seaford, N.Y. Skeptics, of course, said it was not a geist at all, polter or otherwise, but their alternative theories lacked concrete evidence...