Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Modern sculptor Jacques Lipschitz and Julius Stratton, President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will also receive degrees...
...Modern technology is threatening to destroy the remains of 5,000 years of cultural history unless a UNESCO comission headed by John O. Brew, Director of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, can roll back the waters of the Nile...
Ireland's tosspot Playwright-Autobiog-rapher Brendan Behan, a portly 36, tippy-toed back into London, whose citizens he treated last July to the spectacle of one of the most monumental binges of modern times. Proudly proclaimed Wife Beatrice, who did not accompany Behan on his summer pub safari: "He's been off the gargle for a week or two. He's been very good." In a Piccadilly bar, Behan hoisted just one wee nip and bellowed: "To success!" Clinking glasses with him, Beatrice responded: "Success to abstinence!" Then Behan lumbered off to the theater to catch...
...Brownings, of "Old maids of both sexes, retired librarians, governesses, ladies with reduced incomes," who, in the Victorian era, gave it the tone of a genteel rest home. This is the city whose people "invented the Renaissance, which is the same as saying that they invented the modern world-not, of course, an unmixed good." Its great artists-Michelangelo, Leonardo, Cellini-wrought wonders in a time of bloody political and family feuds such as history has seldom seen. Murders were committed at the very altar; homosexuality was a passion shared by artists and businessmen alike; the sins that Savonarola thundered...
Many educators are blind to "the stark realities" of modern society, he writes. Moreover, they don't even have a "feeling of urgency" about the situation. He accuses Americans of complacency and of not doing "more to insure our meeting Soviet competition...