Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same issue of TIME, the Spanish philosopher, José Ortega y Gasset, may have explained the rise of Senator Humphrey-and many another modern politician. He assures us that the world is "suffering from a 'vertical invasion' of the masses." It has been "taken over by the commonplace mind...
...happy parts of this press conference is that I learned over the radio this morning what it was about," he said. "That seemed to me to be a triumph of modern journalism . . . I think my function ought to be to live up to the advance report. I understood that you were going to question me about Point Four of the President's address [the spread of U.S. industrial techniques throughout the world] and so . . . I might as well plunge into that...
...Plumbing. Acheson leaned back, spoke over his clasped hands like a high-school teacher lecturing a class in civics. "To me, the essential thing about it is that it is the use of material means to a nonmaterial end." That end was not the installation of modern plumbing in every home, nor profit for U.S. imperialism. "It is not that material objects in and of themselves make a better or fuller life, but they are the means by which people can obtain freedom, not only freedom from the pressure of those other human beings who would restrict their freedom...
Last week he received visitors in his paneled office, where an antique pendulum clock loudly ticks among the modern furnishings. Usually he slid out from behind his big desk to sit beside the visitor on a comfortable red leather sofa. At week's end he watched as chubby, square-jawed James Webb was sworn in as his Under Secretary. Said Acheson: "I have here your commission . . . I hand it to you and congratulate myself...
...best and virtually only source on Mao's early life is Edgar Snow's Red Star Over China (Modern Library Series, Random House). Snow spent many nights listening to Mao's life story. TIME bases its account of Mao's childhood largely on Snow's interview...