Word: modernizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kamal Ataturk of Turkey are history, archeology, language. Long ago Dictator Kamal Ataturk set archeologists to work digging up old Hittite civilizations of Asia Minor. Favorite Kamal Ataturk theses- largely unconfirmed by reputable anthropologists and philologists-are that the Turk is a lateral descendant of the old Hittite, that modern Turkish springs from one of the as-yet-undeciphered Hittite languages, that all other languages spring from the Turkish...
CESAR FRANCK: QUINTET FOR PIANO AND STRINGS (Roth String Quartet with E. Robert Schmitz; Columbia: 10 sides). First modern recording of one of Franck's finest works. The Roth Quartet and Pianist Schmitz do well by its surging, Gothic phrases...
Experts last week admitted that John Casterline's idea was scientifically sound, for modern tree healers have been injecting medicines directly into the trunks as well as packing fertilizers into the earth surrounding the roots. However, they withheld judgment pending further investigation. Said John Casterline, who has been doctoring trees for 20 years: "My wife and I decided to devote our lives to the curing of trees. We believe [our work] to be a great success. We have cured the chestnut blight . . . and in addition we believe we can cure most of the other tree diseases...
...Professor Horton. is most stimulating in the Lutheran nations of Scandinavia, in Czechoslovakia, whose Philosopher-President Dr. Thomas Garrigue Masaryk was "the last great liberal humanitarian," and in Germany, where Karl Barth, most famed if not most influential of European theologians, stirred up the most provocative religious discussions of modern times, before exile to his native Switzerland...
Plain, pious U. S. Roman Catholics hear little of the tremendous widening of modern Catholic theology in Europe. There the most influential lay Catholic thinker is a mild-mannered little Frenchman, Jacques Maritain, convert to the faith and professor at the Institut Catholique in Paris. Maritain is a follower of the great medieval doctor of the Church, St. Thomas Aquinas. In Neo-Thomism, based upon the monumental Summae of St. Thomas, Maritain sees the unique cure for modern ills. Seeking, like Karl Barth, to rescue civilization from humanism and revive pure Christianity, Neo-Thomism does not "annihilate man before...