Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Neither do any of us. How horrible to think that the routinization of modern life has penetrated even into the hospital delivery ward and that babies become like so many home appliances rolling off the assembly line, one after another. Blase orderlies careen around the maternity ward sorting the newborns--different colors sometimes, but basically interchangeable...
...digital computer. On that day in 1946, ENIAC in 20 seconds performed a mathematical calculation that would otherwise have required 40 girl hours to complete. Newspapers headlined the performance. It "solves the unsolvable," reported the Philadelphia Inquirer. Indeed, many experts mark ENIAC's feat as the beginning of the modern computer...
...armchair detectives, it preserves the phantasmagoric mood essential to Hawksmoor's impact. Ackroyd, 36, a versatile English writer whose biography of T.S. Eliot was widely praised two years ago, has a gift for historical pastiche. His 18th century is a battleground where the rational temper of the modern world, championed by Wren, contends with the medieval occultism embraced by Dyer...
...modern day protester is perceived as something of a fossil, trying vainly to recapture the glory of a bygone...
Meanwhile, in Manila, Marcos said yesterday that sore losers and "modern-day imperialists" in foreign capitals are trying to taint his election victory. The critics he castigated say he won by fraud...