Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...amateur archaeologist who turned painter only seven years ago: "Painting as such has reached the end of its road. From now on, the human eye will be perfectly satisfied by seeing any color or shape, provided the color is brilliant and the shape imaginative. You won't get modern art any cheaper and certainly not any better...
...Modern prospecting has matured into a science, though man has yet to find a direct method of finding oil. The chances are still long. Only one wildcat field in 42 produces 1,000,000 bbl., and costs are so steep that a million-barrel field barely pays for itself. With risks growing higher and winnings less, fears have cropped up that the U.S., with only a twelve-year known reserve, will run dry of oil. Oilady Knowles disagrees: "Ever since Edwin Drake's discovery 100 years ago, there have been fears of a shortage. Each time...
Count Your Blessings. A pleasant little comedy about a modern Penelope (Deborah Kerr) and her absentee husband, including some lectures about Gallic marriage delivered by the indestructible Maurice Chevalier...
Room at the Top. A curiously old-fashioned plot about social climbing, recalling Stendhal's The Red and the Black, in a modern welfare-state setting. Based on a book by John Braine, one of Britain's angry young novelists, the picture sometimes verges on caricature and cliche, but it remains one of the best British movies in years...
Aparajito (Indian). This sequel to Father Panchali by brilliant Director Satyajit Ray movingly describes an Indian family's sorrowful, hopeful encounter with modern times...