Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...State Department official was content to say that Vietnam "was their problem now." In seeing Vietnam only as a semi-satellite nation of the Soviet Union, U.S. diplomats repeat, in an updated, streamlined, fully modern form, the same mistake of seeing Vietnam as a pawn of the Superpowers that got the U.S. involved in the war in the first place. During the war the U.S. sought to "save" the South to "contain" China. Now the whole region is seen only as a playpen for the client nations of the two Communist superpowers. The legitimate bilateral concerns that...
Konrad added that the courses Brustein proposes in modern and classical drama overlap with courses currently offered by the English Department...
According to the proposal, Brustein would teach the only two drama courses offered for credit: one in modern drama and one in classical drama...
Robert H. Chapman, director of the Loeb and professor in the English department, now teaches English 160A. "Modern Dance," English 125B, "Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama," covers a syllabus similar to Brustein's suggested classical drama course...
...many of the qualities of the recent popes; he is concerned with human and social problems, but at the same time he is intellectually involved in all kinds of modern issues not strictly limited to church ideas," he added...