Word: modernize
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When the Harvard Divinity School was founded 161 years ago, James Monroe was president of the United States, Pope Pius VII was head of the Roman Catholic Church, and the world in general held an outlook far different from that of modern society. The changes that have occurred since then, and in particular the trends of the last 20 years, have had a marked effect upon the Divinity School and its relationship with the outside world. In an effort to analyze this effect, Krister Stendahl, dean of the Divinity School, has attempted, in a report to President Bok that will...
RECENT SURVEYS REVEAL that each American family spends an average of six hours per night mesmerized by a television set, passively absorbing the fictional universe of stagnant soaps and muddled mysteries. Still, this mere spectator's role cannot satisfy the modern imagination, so it is easy to understand the surging popularity of Citizens' Band (CB) radio, which solicits audience participation in electronic media. A CB operator finds the radio a suitable stage for the enactment of daydreams. Serving as an outlet for the hidden personalities of its users, CB becomes either a creative or a destructive tool for individual fantasies...
...first, there's just a thickening of the skin. Suddenly the gloves and shoes become hooves; a horn sprouts menacingly from the forehead. Finally, a few angry grunts...voila, a rhinoceros. Thus does Eugene Ionesco give birth to his favorite symbol of modern "bourgeois" man. When, in Rhinoceros, the creature starts multiplying into a nasty herd, you have the beginning of an ugly, conformist and "sloganized" society that has become the playwright's chief target for over two decades of political and theatrical writing...
Educating the "Modern" American Parent: Reflections on Past and Present--Steven Schlossman, University of Chicago, Agassiz Colloquium room...
Grapelli's sound, his swing, is unmistakable. He can play exactly as he did in 1934. He has also recorded some modern works with Jean-Luc Ponty. And he has even recorded with Yehudi Menuhin. He will play his versatile violin tomorrow night with the Diz Disley trio at the Berklee Performance Center...