Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Third World is also moving into steelmaking. Brazil and Mexico have already become exporters. Argentina and Chile are increasing their capacity. By the early 1980s some of the oil-producing Arab countries will be turning out steel. In shipbuilding, South Korea and Brazil have some yards that are more modern than Western Europe's. Along with Poland and Taiwan, they can produce bulk carriers even more cheaply than Japan...
...apelike Ramapithecus (for the Hindu epic hero Rama), whose bones were first found in India and who died out some 10 million years ago. Perhaps more important, so recent a split would seem to allow far too little time for the development of a creature as sophisticated as modern...
...good can a college football team be and still not rank No. 1 in the nation? Let Penn State count the ways. It has had 27 consecutive winning seasons and 40 straight years at .500 or better (both modern N.C.A.A. records). Its coach of 13 years, Joe Paterno, boasts the highest winning percentage (.833) of anyone still sending in signals after ten years of major college football warfare, including three unbeaten and untied seasons capped by victories in a major bowl...
...painter Giorgio de Chirico died of a heart attack in Rome last week. He was 90, and his death removed one of the last connections between our day and the formative years of modern art. Nearly all who created the modernist vocabulary between 1900 and 1930 are dead. Four remain: Marc Chagall, 91; Joan Mird, 85; Sonia Delaunay, 93; and Salvador Dali, 74. None have produced much work of consequence in recent years; posterity will not have time for late Chagall or post-1939 Dali. Nevertheless, De Chirico's career was so uneven as to have been unique. His impact...
...reach his declared goal: a delayed place in the Renaissance tradition. His mythological scenes, in imitation of Titian, were leaden and vacuous; his nudes, meant to emulate Rubens, had the consistency of overboiled gnocchi; homage kept turning into parody. In the meantime De Chirico railed furiously at the modern movement; Braque and Matisse were "malodorous" and surrealism was a brainless obscenity...