Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...once admitted, "a period piece." He would never buy a car, had a neurotic fear of cities, disliked much modern poetry ("Has T. S. Eliot ever written three consecutive lines of poetry in his life?"). His own affection lay in the past -the whole past of English literature and all the men & women who had made it. "Literature is, I repeat, memorable speech recording memorable thoughts and deeds . . ." For Q, it was life itself...
...bluntest words to the medicos came from Dr. Herbert Ratner, head of the Student Health Service at Loyola University School of Medicine. Dr. Ratner, a Jew converted to Roman Catholicism nine years ago, accused modern medical schools of sinking to a "veterinarian level by studying man as if he were a horse instead of a human being with a spirit . . . We see nature as violated, when modern man as the result of medical propaganda goes through life fearing death [and] ends up as a vitamin-taking, antacid-consuming, barbiturate-sedated, aspirin-alleviated, weed-habituated, benzedrine-stimulated, psychosomatically-diseased, surgically-despoiled...
...rain during a Remembrance Day service. Since he took over the throne his brother abdicated twelve years ago, the nervous, shy, self-effacing King has probably changed uniforms more often, shaken more hands, listened to more speeches, and laid more wreaths than any other chief of state in modern times...
Saturday night the Idler Players of Radcliffe presented William Congreve's "The Way of the World" in a modern-dress version. This play, the wittiest of Restoration comedies, fares badly by modernization because it is best enjoyed as a period piece. Taking "The Way of the World" of the Restoration takes a great deal out of the ply itself...
...transplant successfully any play from its original setting to modern times seems go demand that it have either a plot of some universal theme or else a pertinent parallel to the present. The Idler Players obviously felt the latter to be true, which may be so. Counterparts of Mr. Congreve's people certainly do exist today, but the people on the stage at Agassiz are confused and confusing hybrids, standing with one leg in the Seventeenth and one in the Twentieth Century...