Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Plastic politician," said London's Observer; "Organization man," said the News Chronicle; "Very spirit of togetherness," sneered the London Daily Mirror; "Mechanical smile," said the Daily Herald; "Superb political gamesmanship," said the Manchester Guardian. In one of the odd situations of modern diplomacy, Nixon was personally on trial and double-dared to make a misstep...
...watched dark-skinned boys dive 165 ft. into a surging wave at Acapulco. It is violent: the plump señora in the cartoon scolds her sombreroed husband as he cleans his pistol, saying "Oh, Pablo, you're not going back into politics!" In the cities it has modern hotels, traffic jams, skyscrapers and ocherous murals; in the country drowsy peons in scrapes prop the walls of moldering churches in quaint colonial villages...
...copper tubing, shoes, mattresses, Nescafe, paper bags, fertilizer, matches, glass, plumbing supplies, corn sirup, and the oils of cottonseed, peanuts and sesame. In the city are the concrete skeleton of a high new medical center, a sprawling new market, the circular sweep of a new sports arena, the glassy modern blankness of expensive new houses in 16 separate real estate developments...
...with care, supervising it closely. Foreign capital must be aware of and recognize its responsibilities and not merely provide a vehicle for the extraction of profits. The human factors involved-that is, whether the worker gets enough to eat and whether his malaria is cured-are the responsibilities of modern capitalism...
Charles Frankel, professor of Philosophy at Columbia and chairman of the Department, spoke to the delegates last night on "The Philosophy of Modern Education...