Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reds' light, mustard-colored uniforms were generally clean, and the men were well armed with Bren guns, Tommy guns, modern rifles (some of Japanese make, some U.S.). They carried pouches of hand grenades at their belts, bandoleers of cartridges across their shoulders. Many were exhausted. At every halt, soldiers slumped in doorways and on sidewalks. One tall native of Shantung looked up wearily: "What day is it today? We've been walking and fighting for eight days...
Thus did communism take over Shanghai, half again as big as great Moscow itself, and the most modern city in China. The imperialists had built Shanghai, and when imperialism's day was done, the Chinese had inherited the city only to find it a legacy they could not completely control. The greatest commercial center in Asia was certainly not proCommunist; but it was anti-Nationalist because the Nationalists had not the discipline to master Shanghai's half-Eastern, half-Western soul. The city had the energies of two worlds, and the controls of neither. Now world communism...
...showdown will come when both Brazil's and Argentina's railways are finished, and the two countries bid openly for Bolivia's oil. Whatever the outcome, the blessings and drawbacks of modern life will soon come to the Oriente's cattle herders and rubber collectors...
Karl Shapiro, as official poet for the event, will read an original poem entitled "Going to School." Shapiro is a well known modern poet...
...clubs presented a concert of choral music by the Bach Cantata Club assisted by the Harvard Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Nicholas Van Slyck '46. Most recently, the clubs gave a concert of modern chamber and choral music. The chorus, directed by Assistant Professor Irving Fine, one of the faculty advisers of the clubs, sang two of his compositions and one by Gordon Binkerd, a teaching fellow in the Music Department. During the year the clubs also provided a complete performance of Bach's Musical Offering under the direction of David G. Hughes '47 and a lecture on twelve tone music...