Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Saturday. In Israel, the beaches were crowded, food was being cooked, and a modern government transacted business as usual, but in the house of Zvi Rabin-sohn, the Lord's day was being kept. In a sparsely furnished living room at Mikve Israel (an agricultural school near Tel Aviv), Zvi's son Solomon was reading aloud from the Bible; Zvi himself, a fragile old man with a flowing white beard, lay on a couch listening. Just then, a U.S. newsman came in to ask some questions about another member of the family...
...organized Rumanian prisoners of war into the Red army's Tudor Vladimires-cu division-named for a fierce 19th Century Rumanian peasant leader who rebelled against the boyars. His outlook and literary style was much like that of a modern Communist. Sample: "No laws can prevent you from returning evil for evil. If a serpent crosses your path, hit it and kill...
Married. Martha Graham, 46, deadpan high priestess of the modern dance (and radio's Miss Hush of 1947); and Erick Hawkins, 39, her dancing partner; both for the first time; in Santa Fe, N.Mex...
Lady to Lockup. Of Cary's novels, Herself Surprised, first issued in 1941, is the third to be published in the U.S. Each of these three shows him to advantage in a different vein. The Moonlight is a darkly limned, Hardyesque story of conflicting generations in modern England; The African Witch is an authentic description of life in an African town. Herself Surprised is written in what is probably Cary's most congenial mode: the humorous picaresque in which a roguish heroine recalls, with tongue-in-cheek moralizing, the dubious deeds of her past...
...successfully as armor plate ..." Thus a laminated plastic cloth was excitedly described at last week's meeting of the American Chemical Society in Washington (see SCIENCE). This week a small sailboat made of the same plastic took honors in the first postwar plastics competition sponsored by the magazine Modern Plastics; the boat is impervious to marine worms, needs no paint and can withstand bullets fired at close range...