Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...land of the good Samaritan, it has been UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) that has met the stranger on the road to Jericho and given him succor-or, in modern specifications, emergency medical treatment, food, clothing and shelter. For ten years, since the end of the Israeli war in 1949, UNRWA has been helping support 1,000,000 Arab refugees in 58 camps around Israel's borders. Richer Arabs say it is up to the West to help their poor Arab brethren, because it was the West that invited Israel in to become a nation. The Israelis...
...retirement to direct The Program for High School Teachers of Science and Mathematics here. This "retreading" program established by the Ford Foundation seeks to educate high school teachers in the latest concepts of nuclear physics so that they in turn may keep their own students in step with modern science and technology...
...Poet Archibald MacLeish's Pulitzer-prizewinning play about Job in the guise of a modern American businessman. The language and the logic are a trifle threadbare, but the evening is richly cloaked in theatrical excitement...
While this story is not particularly attractive, it contains no pornography, either in the situation itself or in the way it is photographed. The playwright's declared purpose is to show corruption, and his story does so while remaining well within the bounds of what is acceptable on the modern screen or stage. The real trouble with the film lies in Williams' failure to make his people anything more than corrupt. They have more medical than dramatic interest--or at least they did until Elia Kazan got to work on them...
Construction of the new Harvard-Radcliffe Health Center--ten floors for modern medical facilities and University offices--may start within a year. Edward Reynolds '15, Administrative vice-President, stated that work on the multimillion dollar structure would not begin until next spring at the earliest...