Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another grim chapter in one of the more shocking tales of modern education-the continuing story of a great city apparently unable to cope with the teen-aged hoodlums who terrorize its streets and public schools...
...drink coffee." They invent new "thoiries," or work on such things as the "salt vacine." They are "shabby dressed," often indulge in utter nonsense ("I don't see any reason for putting a satilight up"). Without them, one student conceded, "we would not have any of the modern conveniences that we have today." But the scientist, said another, "does not need to be a genius. Albert Einstein had a very low IQ." Snorted still another pupil: "I don't think he has to be so brilliant he doesn't have any common sense...
From Illinois last week came another case affecting freedom of dress and/or press. Overruling the Cook County Criminal court, which held that a picture of a girl tricked up in sunglasses, a hat and the Stars and Stripes might breach the peace, the state Supreme Court allowed that Modern Man magazine had not desecrated the flag and could not therefore be held guilty of intent to provoke a disturbance...
...such old masters as Bruegel, Goya, Mantegna, Masaccio and Titian. In converting the palace, Naples' Art Director Bruno Molajoli faced not only the staggering task of cleaning and identifying some 600 stored paintings (including two Correggios found in a case marked "rubbish"), but also laying out a modern, well-lighted museum...
Faced with a range of choices from Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum, which shifts its Bruegels around on easels to catch the changing light, to Manhattan's glass-walled Museum of Modern Art, which shuts out all direct sunlight, Capodimonte Director Molajoli chose an elaborate mixture of the best of all systems, combined natural with both filament and fluorescent light, automatically mixed to maintain level, shadowless lighting...