Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...somehow got the impression that your reviewer would have preferred a more "modern" locale for the story-perhaps Cuba just prior to the collapse of the Batista regime. I can just see the mountainside love scene. Jordan (Errol Flynn would be perfect in the role) leers at Maria and wheezes: "Baby, this really swings...
...conspicious in the field of the "fine arts" one need not be a sociologist with a Ph.D. or even a reader of the New Yorker to be aware that the popularity and prestige of wall to wall hi-fi sets, automobiles that will fit through your front door, and modern houses without doors lies in their association in the public mind with "modern" comfort and culture. If art appreciation no longer constitutes the badge of the avant-garde nor is limited to the culture containers at Smith and Wellesley, a parallel phenomenon to the culturalization of the bourgeoisie has been...
Dean Jose Luis Sert and the GSD are quite conscious that the opposition between the two approaches is particularly relevent to architecture. Another way to frame the contrast is in the opposition between the old eclectic method whereby the student looked to traditional styles for design forms and the modern approach which stresses the need for a unique design solution for every different set of conditions...
...words of the Committee on the Visual Arts, "Less and less is modern man swayed by the argument of the written word, and more and more by the photograph, the bill-board, the cinema, the picture magazine, and now television. Until both sender and receiver of these visual messages are trained in the twin arts of perception and discrimination, the educated man may hardly claim to be the master of his own environment...
Tape recordings of the lectures and of selections from plays and poetry on the reading list will be available at the Modern Language Center...