Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Attached to the formal exhibition are a number of modern German paintings--officially Expressionistic--which are familiar objects about the museum. It pays to take a good look at them after seeing these other works...
Britain's great civil war began in 1642. It is still being fought. Every schoolboy, guided more by his own temperament than historical fact, still takes sides as a dashing Cavalier or a solid Roundhead-which is perhaps one reason why modern Britain rests its institutions in an all-powerful Parliament but reserves its affections for a powerless monarchy. In Volume II of her great history, which carries on from The King's Peace, Historian C. V. (for Cicely Veronica) Wedgwood touches this national nerve of double loyalty and lets it enliven what would otherwise be dreary years...
...when he was 47, Chennault went to China at Chiang Kai-shek's request to form an air force, after he had retired from the U.S. service and a losing battle, not unlike Billy Mitchell's, to show the true role of airpower in modern war. When war with Japan came, the Flying Tigers made up the only Allied air force in being in a critical battleground. Yet even after he had been put in command of a U.S. air force of his own and had won the rank of general, he was still treated as a crackpot...
...Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Gertrude Berg as an overloving grandma who offers too much advice to her daughter (Betsy von Furstenberg). When daughter rebels, frustrated grandma seeks succor in a salesclerk's job, soon comically jangles modern commerce...
...guise of a wealthy modern businessman. Though Archibald MacLeish's version lacks Biblical richness of speech and rigor of logic, it brings excitement to the theater...