Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Morris also suggests that this compulsive "conscientiousness" among Radcliffe students also causes a dearth of "imagination" among female students. Evidence from different fields seems to indicate just the opposite, however. Pettigrew notes that girls in his course, Soc. Rel. 134, which concerns modern social problems such as integration, are more willing to take an "adventurous stand" than their Harvard colleagues. This might well be true, he says, because girls will never have to take the responsibility for their radical opinions after college. Nevertheless, the girls' approach toward the course, "irresponsible" or not, does lead to top grades. Each year...
...Tati's tribute to early filmland farce, which differed generally from the modern product because it was not altogether unconscious, was apt as well as flattering. Some Like It Hot, unlike most recent domestic attempts, follows the tradition of Mack Sennett and Charlie Chaplin that Tati revered. It's a welcome arrival on the local scene...
...least one item of Harvard property, a book entitled Treasures of the Earth, was identified yesterday by two professors of Mineralogy, police said. A small soapstone statuette of a "Modern Eskimo," probably worth at least several hundred dollars, will be examined today by a staff member of the Archaeology Museum to see if it was taken from the museum...
...Bible and into modern dress with Job. An added tribulation is the flatness of some of Archibald MacLeish's poetry and dramaturgy, but all in all the evening is richly rewarding...
...seminar for science news writers held last week at Harvard and M.I.T. was termed successful by Louis M. Lyons, curator of the Nieman Fellowships and head of the seminar. About 50 magazine and newspaper reporters attended the three-day meeting, designed to give them a background for modern science reporting...