Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John XXIII has been on the throne of St. Peter only four months, but he is already the best-loved Pope of modern times. Rome has rarely known anyone like the stout, bustling, punchinello-faced old man, who combines warmth, wit and frankness with a dignity that is free of pomp. He is an able, creative, precedent-breaking administrator with a rare humility and an ever-present concern for people. He has been readier than any other Pope in memory to leave the Vatican, a man about town who likes nothing better than to dodge his chauffeurs and stomp through...
Though it has come on hard times, the Villa Savoye is a landmark-if not a classic beauty-of architecture, ranked by many architectural historians as the modern house second in importance only to Frank Lloyd Wright's low-roofed, deep-shadowed 1909 Robie House in Chicago...
...especially enjoyed meeting in books men whom he had "already met on the river." Portrait painting, at its best, gives that kind of enjoyment also. The insights into character that it affords both confirm and expand the experience of people. Lately this enjoyment has been far to seek, since modern artists are more concerned with expressing their own personalities than exploring other people's. Yet a few brilliant portraitists remain-among them ebullient Boris Chaliapin. whose survey of people and places he has known opened at Manhattan's Hirschl & Adler Galleries last week...
Last week Minister of Justice Edmond Michelet tried to quiet the outcry. "We had an ancient judicial system," he said soothingly. "It has been replaced by a system more modern and liberal." The French press was not so sure...
...Capitalism. Canham believes that modern U.S. capitalism is far different from the capitalism of half a century ago, and that it is still "in the state of evolution, cleaning up the many abuses of the past." He describes his economic philosophy as "very much in the middle," against too much power for both labor and management. He is in favor of "the freest possible market. There is a great danger of cartelism in the American economy and a great deal of concern over the problem of bigness." On the other hand, he does not believe that the closed or union...