Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eventually, as one walks along, the first edition volumes end, and rows of black boxes take their place. These are the manuscripts, original autograph first drafts of letters and various other works, from most of the great authors of the modern period. Even a partial list of the manuscripts obtained this year would include such names as Bayle, Montaigne, Lamb, Gray, Kierkegaard, Southey, Wordsworth, Swinburne, Zola, O'Neill, Synge, and Yeats...
...functions, and would be characterized by a thoroughness which is not generally achieved in existing General Education courses. In particular, the committee recommended that the mathematical level of these courses be raised, since the compact and elegant language of mathematics is the fundamental tool of the most advanced modern sciences and is gradually becoming more and more important in other branches...
...evolving philosophy with his considerable theatrical skill. To handle the novel's bewildering rush toward chaos, Camus uses an onstage narrator who streamlines the transition between scenes (some take only eight seconds). The play roils with the deluded intrigues of nihilists, whom Camus makes strongly reminiscent of modern Marxists. Perhaps the play's chief quality is Camus' adroit emphasis of Nikolay Stavrogin (ably played by Pierre Vaneck), the book's most memorably monstrous character. An empty-souled aristocrat, Stavrogin longs to be a sort of Nietzschean superman. He instigates a band of young revolutionaries to murder...
...memory is dimmed by the bitter fact that the war itself turned out to be the obliterating modern thing he himself had predicted. His Broome Park house, which Bachelor Kitchener had hoped would be another Blenheim for his ducal bones, was sold and became a hotel. As for last year's veiling ceremonies at Khartoum, the Sudanese for whom he had founded a school may have scamped the job. His horse's bronze legs stuck out from under the covering. Thus his true memorial is not an Oxford graduate's biography nor a Kipling's "lest...
...Must Die (French). The story of a modern Calvary; one of the most powerful religious movies in years...