Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hotels & Highways. Newfoundland has a long way to go before it can accommodate large numbers of tourists at reasonable rates. It needs to build more roads and to finish and pave a cross-country highway. It needs a car-ferry on the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and many more modern hotels, inns and cabins...
...Wildenstein Gallery in Paris steamed like a Turkish bath as some 1,700 visitors crowded in for a peek at the modern French Christmas pictures on the walls...
...Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, railing against the Red-hunting temper of the times, urge that "Americans should call a halt before hysteria demands that sermons be submitted to Congressmen before delivery." They were reminded by Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr that Christians "frequently wrongly and self-righteously" blame modern ills upon secularism without confessing that "some of the achievements of democratic society are secular in origin and were attained in the teeth of Christian opposition." They passed a hazy resolution citing the "fundamental incompatibility" between Christianity and "certain forms of communism...
...Each of the above nine groups," he tells the reader gently, "under modern scientific classification, are distinct major Phyla,-whereas we, and all our backboned brethren on the earth, from angelfish to apes, are all included in the single Phylum Vertebrata or Chordata...
Frost was, at last, going back in time to the richly and fearfully storied past; he had taken the way that only the greatest modern men of letters-Joyce, Mann,, Eliot-have been able to take without being engulfed, into the mystery of the long ago that becomes myth. Though he took his humor and toughness with him, his Grail-poem, "Directive" (1947), has a sorrowful magic like nothing he had written before. If this was the old man's intolerable touch of poetry, A Masque of Reason (1945) and A Masque of Mercy (1947) carried on his vein...