Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...born of the harvest and nurtured with the sweat of work, that matched the weather and the scene. At Amsterdam's first Assembly of the World Council of Churches (TIME, Sept. 13), Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr had gloomily commented: "There is so little health in the whole of our modern civilization that one cannot find the island of order from which to proceed against disorder...
Today's young woman considers herself a lot more sophisticated than her counterparts of the past, but she is no more proof against the "roguery and hypocrisy of seducers." So warned Pope Pius, who explained that the modern girl "believes herself able, with impunity, to read everything, to see everything, to try everything . . . She is disarmed before the peril...
Norway's Gustav Vigeland spent a lifetime on one of the vastest projects a sculptor ever attempted. It fills Oslo's Frogner Park (TIME, July 16, 1945), and promises to remain among the most controversial works of modern times. With perhaps five years to go before all of Vigeland's sculptured legacy can be cast, TIME Correspondent William Gray found Oslo citizens of two minds about it. His report...
Died. Thomas Armat, 81, inventor of the Vitascope (film projector), which paved the way for the modern movie industry; in Washington. He regarded his invention as "just a side issue" and agreed to let Thomas A. Edison's name be attached to it for commercial reasons (but Armat got rich on the patent rights). Last March Hollywood awarded him a special Oscar for the "debt...
...seven-tiered mountain, Dante's image of purgatory, is used by Merton as a symbol of the modern world...