Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Walzer agreed Jewish intellectuals were beginning to examine Jewish issues more fully. He said the growth of Israel and the acceptance of Jews in modern culture makes unnecessary the "traditional, detached, skeptical Jewish intellectual" in the university and the world...
After 43 years a modern masterpiece is finally complete...
Indeed Lulu, the tragedy of a dancer whose almost mythic embodiment of the erotic principle wreaks universal destruction and death, seemed to be the one modern opera that had everything: electrifying theatricality, sex, moral seriousness, virtuoso scoring-everything, that is, except a third act. When he died in 1935, Berg had completed the third act particella, or short score; but he left the orchestration incomplete and the act was never published. Ever since, opera companies have had to present Lulu in two acts, with a makeshift third act tacked...
...word. Faithful as he was to the atonal vision of his mentor Schoenberg, Berg never left behind the yearning romanticism of Mahler and Wagner. Lulu retains a spontaneous, passionate life of its own. In projecting that passionate life musically, if not always dramatically, the Paris production presented a modern masterpiece on its rightful scale...
...initial eight-year plan, unfurled in 1978, set some Olympian goals, including a 30% increase in China's grain production, a doubling of steel output and the completion of 120 major new industrial projects by 1985. Today the general commitment to modernization remains, but there is apparently a shift in strategies and priorities. The Chinese are suddenly worried about two key problems: 1) How to pay for the transfusion of technology that will be required? 2) How to absorb it into an economy in which education levels are low, "modern" machinery is out of date...