Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...French concentrator, lamenting the lack of courses in modern French Lit.? Take heart: Cocteau on Cocteau offers you a visit with the poet via a one-man show which opens tonight. The man in question is Neil Armstrong, who reads from the letters and works of the warm, witty and generally delightful artist. At the French Library (where else?); call...
...McCabe and Mrs. Miller undermines the modern mythification of the American past, The Long Goodbye (1973) exposes the improbability of a more contemporary American hero: the private eye, as created by Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. Altman's Philip Marlowe (Elliot Gould) is an anachronism. His stocks in trade--intelligence, independence and integrity--are pitifully inadequate weapons with which to confront modern, large-scale, organized corruption...
Yamit (pop, 2,000) is the largest Israeli community in Sinai. A trim town of white stucco bungalows, a modern shopping center and good schools, it was originally promoted by Moshe Dayan-then Defense Minister in Golda Meir's Labor government-as a potential regional metropolis of 250,000 people whose sheer size would make an Arab attack through northern Sinai impractical. Atzila Safrir, who operates a prosperous sidewalk cafe in Yamit, was infuriated by the way Jerusalem had reversed its support. "For ten years the government brainwashed me," she complained. "Now in two weeks they tell...
There were a few memorable quotations from the fleeting days of John Paul, and the Vatican found some of them unsettling. At his first audience he quoted Pinocchio and compared the soul in the modern world to an automobile that breaks down because it runs on champagne and marmalade instead of gasoline and oil. Meeting with the Vatican press corps, he tossed off the notion that today St. Paul, who carried the news of Christ around the Mediterranean world, would probably be the head of a wire service. There were his sternly pastoral addresses deploring divorce to a group...
Byrom despairs of the rigidities that prevent companies from allying to exploit technology and the economies of great size and cooperation. To remain competitive in the world, he says, U.S. steelmakers should be building modern plants with 10-million-ton capacity at deepwater ports. Since no one company can justify spending so much, the Government should allow several steelmakers to join in such projects. To stop the alarming erosion of America's capital base he contends, companies should be permitted to take their full depreciation allowances within one year-so long as they invest them all-instead of being...