Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rather than being narrow, classical civilization extended for fifteen hundred years, included two basic literary tongues and the basic thought of almost every every sphere of human knowledge, and has left a profound imprint on all succeeding cultures. Both modern democracy and Marxist communism have their theoretical origins in classical thought...
...first of the plays, The Words Upon The Window-Pane, is far and away the best. Written in prose and naturalistic in form, the work reflects Yeats' lifelong preoccupation with spiritualism by restaging a seance in modern Dublin. The seance is disturbed by the intrusion of a "hostile spirit," who turns out to be Jonathan Swift. It is a wonderfully gripping work, with an atmosphere both eerie and convincing...
Guillen maintained, however, that we must abandon all pretense to all modern standards of taste to understand Berceo and the kind of poetry he represents. He suggested that Berceo's poetry should be studied as if it were seen "through a crystal...
...This modern-day morality tale of three men down and out in Mexico searching for gold in the remotest hinterlands might be classified as picaresque and episodic, because it depends on external events and travel through the desert to give unity to the human drama which is at the center. Director John Huston creates a marvelously realistic atmosphere. His Mexican lore is superb, every minor detail of dress and speech and technique rings true without the costumed grandiosity that Hollywood usually purveys as local color. He does not give us pale demigods or villains with waxed black mustaches; the three...
Over the long range, the index cannot be an accurate indication of the cost of living because family buying habits change. BLS tries to revise the index to take such changes into consideration, and since the modern index was developed 22 years ago, a score of the 200 original items have been dropped and more than 100 added. But it is almost impossible to make completely satisfactory substitutions. In the '30s, BLS sampled prices for kerosene (for cooking), ice and one-piece union suits, all among the items since dropped. It did not include tablecloths, draperies, bedspreads, baby foods...