Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unharmed and unfazed, he continued his walk. He peered into parking meters, was disappointed to find out that he could not ride to the top of the Washington Monument (the elevator was under repair), sniffed at U.S. modern art at the Corcoran Gallery ("It looks like something my grandchildren might...
...skimpy advance sale of $46,000. On top of that it ran into the truly Jobian trial of New York's newspaper strike, which muffled the critics' unanimous raves. Yet when news about J.B. did spread, via TV, radio and word of mouth, its theme of modern man's agony must have touched responsive chords. By last week J.B. was one of the hottest tickets in town, and requests for seats are pouring in by mail at a rate of nearly 500 a day. Advance sales have zoomed to $250,000, and weekly profits...
Shelley scarcely seems to try. He merely offers solemn, almost sorrowful comments on some of the irritating incongruities of modern life. Take air travel, says Shelley, with the carefully controlled tension of a man who has already taken altogether too much. "I never have the slightest doubt about my safety in a plane until I walk into an airport terminal and realize that there is a thriving industry in this building selling life insurance policies . . . What they do by this power of suggestion is that they plant the seed of doubts into an already chicken human being...
...Darkness at Noon deals with issues that Bulganin must find preciously close these days. One can only guess how the intricacies of party theory confronted such malevolent characters as Beria and Malenkov. Certainly Koestler's 1938 psychological insights into the Communist-mind-at-work have modern and equally terrifying variants, which you not idly ponder as you leave Lowell House...
...This move doesn't represent a victory for the modern Republicans," Arthur A. Maass, associate professor of Government, agreed. "The old line is still in control...