Word: modernizer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last 2000 years," he concludes, "there certainly has been a strong belief in astrology. But in modern times... it just seems so weird...
...hundred years ago, Putnam says, industrialization and urbanization effectively created the same phenomenon that modern technology causes today. Faced with this deficit of social capital, America at the end of the 19th century founded hundreds of community organizations...
...Inserting the historical example into the context of his modern argument, Putnam says, "If you're around now, some people might say, and some people thought I was saying, to my horror: 'life was much nicer back in the fifties, would all women please report to the kitchen and turn off the television...
...unbelievable. We want the opportunity to contemplate something other than the corporeal humdrum of everyday life. We want the vicarious thrill of hearing an answer to our most outrageous queries of What if? "The X-Files," then, can be seen as our filtration of mysticism through a more modern lens, with the paranoia of government conspiracy and the growing fears associated with the introduction of technology such as the Internet serving as appropriate '90s touches. Minotaurs and demons and witches have been replaced by alien cloning and microchip implants, but the underlying principles are the same...
...gave as an example the task of designing the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt. The Museum was planned for a tight triangular space close to a cathedral. Hollein envisioned the cathedral as a "ship," and created an edifice resembling a "ship" traveling in the opposite direction...