Word: modernly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Poland in 1920 to show the young country a thing or two about military science. Unfortunately the Frenchmen, who by nature are the worst colonists in the world, regarded Poland as a colony. Edward Smigly-Rydz took neither to them nor to their theories of dynamic defense against modern fire power, preferred a strategy of enveloping attack, what Pilsudski called the strategy of "open spaces." During last year's Polish Army maneuvers, the German military attache asked what use Poland, with its terrible roads, had for tanks. The Marshal smiled and said: "Ah, but you have good roads." The Marshal...
Against the Current. All this, like innumerable Churchill adventures and anecdotes made a lively career, but paradoxically bothered voters. To modern Britons up to last week Winston Churchill was less like a public figure than like some oldfashioned, battered Gladstone bag stuffed full of the relics of Empire-pieces of prejudices, bits of old patriotic songs (music hall comedians used to call him "Winnie"), mementoes of old Imperial wild oats, mistakes, idyllic weekends better forgotten. Jaunty, witty, informed, expert, positive, a sparkling talker when interested, a growling monster of rudeness when bored, he said in 1939 what he had said...
Stravinsky: Petrouchka (Philadelphia Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting; Victor: 8 sides). Stravinsky's 28-year-old epic about the lovelorn clown, still tops in modern ballet scores, gets its first complete (and a brilliant) recording...
...expose, The Hospital conceives of the big modern hospital as a social microcosm where conditions become specially favorable for study of society with its hair down. The story, told through the eyes of a dozen characters, is concentrated in a maximum half hour of a sweltering summer afternoon. Revolving from furnace room to Surgery, from the laundry to superintendent's office, it includes autopsy room, nurses' quarters, wards, clinic, even a scene in which a tugboat is loaded with consignments for potter's field...
...misfortune of modern education, in my opinion, is that this process of mixing up the students of different subjects is not continued in the graduate schools. The embryonic doctor, lawyer, business executive, architect, and clergyman would benefit enormously from each other if they could dine together every evening during their graduate school life. At present this is not possible in most universities, least of all, perhaps, at Harvard. We may hope that time will remedy this unfortunate condition...