Word: modernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some respects, modern society will require even more centralization than now exists; in some respects, to make it bearable as well as workable, it will require more decentralization. Achieving a balance between these two needs is perhaps the most important and difficult problem for the near future, reaching far beyond schools or other services to the heart of government. No American city has yet achieved the balance. New York has hardly given it a try. Describing his own organization's key role in helping to finance the Ocean Hill-Brownsville experiment, Ford Foundation President McGeorge Bundy acknowledged last week...
Plugging people in is the goal of modern planners and urban thinkers, just as building grand boulevards and sweeping plazas was the dream a century ago. Most urban thinkers envisage a graduated form of government. A large, regional body would do such things as policing the environment, building expressways, and providing police. Smaller organizations would provide services such as recreation and education...
...German SS officer. And when he himself is killed by a piece of shrapnel at the beginning of the Charge, he emits a high-pitched shriek which becomes disembodied--suddenly the contorted face on the screen is no longer producing the sound, for the shriek is that of a modern artillery shell...
...parade will produce horrendous disasters, but through it all they retain a certain character, and, one feels, the potential for charity. As Nolan unknowingly predicts before leaving England, the campaign in the Crimea would mark not only the last of the gallant wars, but the first of the modern ones. When the Charge is over, the viewer does not feel he will miss the gallantry, but we know already how much worse modernity will prove...
Fired for Smoking. In trying to fix his trio in a modern perspective and yet do them justice, Hofstadter does not evade such criticism. He is often at lis best when throwing a few darts of his own. Beard's rendering of the Constitutional Convention, he suggests, makes the proceedings look like the secret and conspiratorial work of tycoons carving up some new banana republic...