Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...capable of yielding 50,000 tons a year. Today the great cost of transporting them out of the Sahara excludes exploitation of these heavy ores. But Soustelle, firmly if vaguely, continues to talk of the day when "we shall see materialize in the Sahara in a new way the modern activities of a big part of our industry." With more immediacy, he talks of building a power plant (to run on local deposits of natural gas) at the oasis of In Salah and of building a full-fledged town at Hassi Messaoud...
Atkins also pointed out that Schiller was a "modern" poet since he knew the abyss between the real and the ideal could not be bridged. Schiller felt all art was merely a representation of idealism and should not be confused with real history. Action alone, not moral sentiment, determined drama...
After tracing the development of American theatre, from its Victorian basis through reforms by O'Neill until the emergence of the Group Theatre, Whitehead talked specifically about the modern American theatre and the Lincoln Square Theatre. Modern theatre, Whitehead believes, will develop new techniques, greater ranges, and more imagination in choices of topics and presentations during the next decade--if limitations are not imposed. During the past, natural talent supported the theatre; today, it is necessary to create a new heritage and tradition...
...Archibald MacLeish's Job, though grey-flanneled and smartly modern, has real old-fashioned theatrical excitement...
...Tents of Wickedness, by Peter De Vries. The plot and the people may be familiar in this sequel to Comfort Me with Apples, but the parodies offer a punoramic view of modern fiction...