Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Knock, Jules Romains' astringent comedy on the triumph of medicine over the modern mind, received a barely lukewarm performance at the play's opening Tuesday night in the Tufts' Arena...
...great statue of Athena and her attendants. To build flexible office space with working room for 200 U.S. embassy employees, Gropius and his collaborators fell back on the plan the ancient Greeks used for their domestic architecture, built the embassy around the central open court, and added the modern principle of movable interior walls...
...through an atomistic thinking-through or insight." But "the very suburban mind which is looked at with fear by the detractors may well be the basis for a beginning of a new Christian era." Perhaps it is because the critics of suburban religion "lack insight into the nature of modern society and the group process that they would scratch out the gains of suburbia and start all over again in a comfortable model closer to their hearts' desire. But after all, the patient who is cured by group therapy may be healthier than the person who doesn...
...started by Zeus from opposite edges of creation had met. Close to the great temple of Apollo, which housed the storied oracle and its fume-drugged priestess, each city-state of ancient Greece maintained its own temple. Last week the Greek government announced plans to turn Delphi into a modern center for the spiritual gathering of nations, invited the 15 nations comprising the Council of Europe and any other country "belonging to Western civilization" to build a pavilion at Delphi. Purpose of the pavilions: to provide a place for meditation and study by political leaders or delegates to international conferences...
...businessman is a reflection of his own background and personality. As a boy, he spent as much time being tutored in the arts at home as he did in a Chicago private school. Starting out young in business, he put together the Container Corp. combine, pushed the idea of modern design into such areas as annual reports and office interiors, pioneered a new type of institutional advertising with his series on the "Great Ideas of Western Man." Paepcke started to develop Aspen as a sort of all-round cultural and sport center; he has already sunk...