Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...loan-seeking corporations and bends elbows with their chiefs at the Metropolitan Club and the Greenbrier and the Business Roundtable. Yes, says Wriston, business should be strong both in 1978 and 1979, which is as far as anybody can foresee. But he is bedeviled by many questions about modern America, including who killed Jack Armstrong and whether Abe Lincoln could be elected today and what's doing with the Laffer Curve. Let Wriston explain three of the problems that he senses worry the nation...
...kind of ecclesiastical banishment. Yet it is Dudko, not Patriarch Pimen, who has come to symbolize Christianity's will to survive in the officially godless nation. As much as any man in the Soviet Union, he has borne effective witness to the relevance of religion in a modern state...
Instead, Dudko inaugurated "dialogue" sermons at Saturday night services, responding to written questions so he could address the real interests of his congregation. So powerful was his speaking style, so candid his discussions of the moral tensions in modern Soviet life that the church was soon overflowing with visitors, many of them dissatisfied young atheists. Such a response would usually guarantee success for a clergyman. For Dudko, it led to police interrogations, then removal from his parish by nervous church authorities. It very nearly ended his career. Dudko apologized to the Orthodox hierarchy for his indiscretions, and that, in addition...
...color and shape that these sublime artificers made were developed from their landscape motifs. Cézanne's was the Provençal countryside around Aix. Monet's was a garden at Giverny, about 40 miles outside Paris. It is one of the sacred sites of the modern movement...
...insight into what makes a Hoffa, and no historical insight into how the American labor movement so quickly deteriorated into self-serving materialism. That is perhaps excusable; what can you expect from people who not only were not present at the creation, but also never brush up against the modern working man except when they take their Mercedes in for repair...