Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...embraced all that is material with excessive and unwarranted zeal. This new way of thinking, which had imposed on us its guidance, did not admit the existence of intrinsic evil in man nor did it see any higher task than the attainment of happiness on earth. It based modern Western civilization on the dangerous trend to worship man and his material needs. Everything beyond physical well-being and accumulation of material goods, all other human requirements and characteristics of a subtler and higher nature, were left outside the area of attention of state and social systems, as if human life...
Solzhenitsyn argues that the West's spiritual decline began during the Renaissance, when the currents of humanism started to give modern man a sense of autonomy from any higher forces above him. The Renaissance, he says, ended the Middle Age's complete repression of man's physical nature. "Then, however," Solzhenitsyn adds, "we turned our backs on the Spirit and embraced all that is material with excessive and unwarranted zeal...
Ever since the women's movement began sneering at Miss America, the pageant has been nervous, trying to keep traditionalists content while courting the interest of modern young women. Some ambiguity is inevitable. Christine is liberated by any standard, adamant that the public perceive her as a "woman who can take care of herself." When a reporter asks for her vital statistics, she looks him square in the eye and says, "I don't know. I don't even know how much I weigh." But she slips into the word "girls" when lapsing into pageant talk...
...program virtually amounted to social retrogression, stalemating the Shah's dream of turning Iran into a modern industrial state. But he was convinced that to do otherwise would only invite more rioting. Revolution could follow, bringing an end to his dynasty, and, no doubt, fresh opportunities for the Soviets...
...Federal Reserve Board in March after eight years as chairman. Last week, following a quiet little bidding war for his services, the former Fed chief accepted a job as "senior adviser" at the highly influential investment banking firm of Lazard Frères. While Henry Kissinger surely holds the modern pay record for ex-Washington officials in part-time jobs on Wall Street,* Burns will do all right for a retired bureaucrat of 74. His retainer: reportedly in the $100,000 to $200,000 a year range...