Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That the U.S. should now be so openly and unabashedly courted by a regime that used to excoriate the Yankee imperialism as a paper tiger is one of the most startling reversals in modern diplomatic history. It reflects, to a great extent, the determination of Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing and China's other new leaders to enlist Washington's help in countering the Soviet Union's mounting influence in Asia. It thus establishes a major new phase in Washington's often stormy relations not only with Peking but with Moscow as well. Even as the Chinese were meeting...
...part of their modernization program, China's leaders are discussing plans with U.S. Steel and a Japanese firm to build a $1 billion iron ore processing complex in the north. Still, the Chinese were taking another step that seemed to weigh against modernization, the showing in several Peking movie houses of Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin's 1936 mournful satire on the brutalizing aspects of overmechanization. The sight of Chaplin trapped on the assembly line could set Chinese citizens pondering the evils, as well as the blessings, of modernization...
...Putney, Vt., were battling to keep their school open, not close it down. They failed. After a long period of financial scrambling, the once prospering 27-year-old school was some $6 million in debt and unable to pay salaries or even its heating bills. Enrollment at the modern campus, designed for 1,000 students and built at a cost of $10 million at the height of the educational splurge of a decade ago, was down to 260. Lamented the financial vice president, Herbert Flaig: "We have lost a battle, and the fall has not been easy...
...found the Concepción and hauled up 32 tons of silver from the barnacle-encrusted wreck. In return for one-fifth of the find, a grateful King James II of England knighted his noble servant and made him Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. But by the time modern sea hunters began looking into the story, a crucial log from Phips' expedition, with compass bearings for the site, had vanished...
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations spans some 5,000 years, from the Egyptian Book of the Dead (circa 3500 B.C.) to the verse of Andrei Voznesensky (born 1933). The book ends are astonishingly apposite. The King Tut exhibition demonstrates that ancient art has modern resonance. Nostalgia for the Present proves that Russia's contemporary poet tells ageless parables...