Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fair Lady, The Music Man and West Side Story are three modern musical-comedy classics...
Tombstones & Coffins. Wright vociferously maintained his claim to originating modern architecture. But when it came back to him from Europe in the forceful form of works by Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier, he belabored these men as "glassic architects" and worse. He dramatically ranged himself against the sweeping tide of .the International Style. Manhattan's United Nations Secretariat was a "tombstone," Lever House "a waste of space," the Seagram Building "a whisky bottle on a card table." The steel-cage frame was "19th century carpenter architecture already suffering from arthritis of the joints." Boxy modern...
...taken from a Chinese poem in which a lonely man in a watchtower looks out across a barbarous and a desolate land. But it is also the gate at which the sentinels of civilization have always stood guard and always died in the end. The scene of this modern tale of horror is Africa, where the Roman watch fell to the Vandals 1,500 years ago, and where today the British guard is falling to nationalism. Whatever its accuracy as an omen, By the North Gate is one of the year's most chilling novels. It is as free...
...guise of a wealthy modern businessman. Though Archibald Mac-Leish's version lacks Biblical richness of speech and rigor of logic, it brings excitement to the theater...
...this film will have, for the host of avid movie experts, the same kind of historic interest that the picaresque novel contains for the smaller group of people who still read novels. One cannot fully appreciate the modern motion picture without having some idea of the laff riots of yesteryear, when faces served principally as background for pies, and pants could be counted on to be torn off in the middle of Main Street...