Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Premier Kishi's decisive victory over the Socialists (see above) seemed like any other modern, democratic electoral competition. But there were reminders of a more ancient Japan. On election eve a Buddhist priest from Hiroshima, who disagreed with Kishi's foreign policy, used a 5-in. dagger to disembowel himself in ceremonial hara-kiri in front of the Premier's official residence. And there was also something decidedly un-Western about the election of all six candidates nominated by the Soka Gakkai sect...
Around the world, from alpine heights to sluggish deltas, and even down into the coralline depths of the Pacific, legmen for U.S. medicine were busy last week in a single-minded search. The objective: folk remedies, plants, lichens or marine slimes that might, through modern chemical analysis, yield useful drugs for treating man's ills, from toothache to cancer...
Clark University Wernher von Braun, spaceman Sc.D. Citation: "Truly a modern Columbus. Space is his realm, the freeing of man from the chains of gravity which bind him to this planet...
...bronze, but there is an added glitter of stainless steel, phosphor or chrome. The great difference is that Cellini produced in bronze a famous Perseus; today's sculptors too often end up with a glittering space divider or macabre wall hanging. Startling and even elegant as such modern objects can be (see color pages), they tend more to snag the imagination like an unexpected piece of barbed wire than hold the eye transfixed in admiration...
...artists have never been asked to do more than reflect the time in which they live. By this standard a selection of 79 works (priced from $75 to $22,000) by 66 U.S. artists (two-thirds under 40) now on display at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art makes a lively commentary on the present state of modern man's concerns and anxieties as well as his changing view of beauty. The broad selection chosen from some 700 entries underlines another fact: whether today's sculpture starts off as junk and ends...