Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Women are still the homemakers of America and they are . . . smart enough to know that it is to their advantage to remain feminine. They will always like the warm, pretty things that become them, and modern, in its present form, does not. It is made...
...Neutra sell his modern houses to bachelors-they can spend their lonely Sundays shining up those miles of cold plate glass windows. Of course, as long as women are around, it's a limited market...
Little Bonn, on the west bank of the Rhine, bustled to prepare itself as the world's newest capital. One morning last week, a black limousine stopped in front of the gleaming white, ultra-modern Teachers' College which carpenters and masons were enlarging to hold the legislative houses of the long-awaited German Federal Republic. Out of the car stepped a tall, elderly man, in sober dark suit and high, starched collar. One or two of the workmen recognized him as he passed, and nodded gravely; he responded with a grin. Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor-apparent of the Federal...
Painter Fausett once took a fling at modern art, still likes some of it. "But," says he, "it doesn't belong inside a frame. It's decorative and that's all. Braque, for instance, is at his best in tapestries." Lucioni, who paints barns in a studio barn of his own, is too much awed by nature to tamper with it in his pictures: "When I'm out in the woods I have the feeling that I'm in an immense cathedral...
...play itself (which Eliot charted last year with complex blackboard diagrams at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study) marked his departure from Greek myth and medieval legend. Set in a modern London flat and a psychiatrist's Harley Street office, it contained social chitchat, a bawdy ballad and a couple of interlocking triangles. But, true to form, devout Anglo-Catholic Eliot had underlaid his comedy with sober Christian dialectic. First-nighters at the Edinburgh Festival could note that Eliot's psychiatrist and patients acted and talked more like a parson and his parishioners...