Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...emerge. The scandal of the provocations died. The poetry (some of it) survived. The paintings went into museums and were hung in the houses of the rich. But there is an immense pathos and beauty in the relics, the artifacts. They are the fragments of a hope that post-modern art has lost, and may never find again...
...humors of the weather, ancient man was forced to attribute the mysterious cosmic moil to deities. Wishing desperately to better his odds against the weather (or lessen its against him), he invented innumerable prayers, supplications, sacrifices, all intended to coax the gods to bestow better weather. Wanting exactly like modern man to know about tomorrow's wind, he developed the practice of looking for omens of coming weather in the conduct of animals, the tones of the sky or the turnings of foliage. He tried rituals, such as dancing, to control the weather. They did not work, of course...
With computers on tap and electronic eyes in the sky, modern man has thus come far in dealing with the weather, alternately his nemesis and benefactor. Yet man's predicament today is not too far removed from that of his remote ancestors...
...presentation seemed like a well-tailored tribute to his American audience. A blaring rendition of Porgy and Bess paced his models at the Inter-Continental Hotel, and he described the Gershwin classic, now onstage in Paris, as the source of his inspiration and "the epitome of the American spirit ... modern, sexy, amusing and full of gaiety." Saint Laurent's focus on the American spirit may have been good business as well as good showmanship. He was no doubt considering the American boutiques for which his couture styles will eventually be adapted...
According to the author, this modern view of punishment arose from the Enlightenment. Its basis lay in the principles of individual regulation and social organization. New technologies were absorbed into the modern prison of cellular, open tiers and central observation towers. Such prisons became "a privileged place for experiments on men . . ." With in the jails, a new theoretical being was conceived: the correctable "delinquent," unceasingly probed by "civil servants of moral orthopaedics...