Word: modernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more modern and readable paper than it had been before the schism...
...library was built in 1942. "This was the time," Philip Hofer, curator of the department of Printing and Graphic Arts, recalled last week "when period styles were going out of fashion and modern art and architecture were coming in. The building was heavily criticized by all the modernists and heavily supported by all the traditionalists-Coolidge, for example, of Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch. Abbott. and God." Hofer's eyes twinkled. "Please do not leave out God, because he was one of their junior partners...
...triple bill. Their prey, and the source of the drama's continuity, is Anna Calder-Marshall, an actress formidable enough at 21 to hold the stage opposite such intimidating costars. Sir Laurence Olivier is the narrator-host, providing bridges between the parts of Owen's "modern morality fable...
...rising prices. Last week, as Frenchmen returned to work after their August holiday, the Pompidou government greeted them with news of austerity to come. Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing announced an at tack on inflation that will employ nearly every fiscal and monetary weapon available to modern governments...
With all their faults, wrote French Poet Charles Peguy, God loves the French best. It would be hard to prove Peguy wrong. Still, one wonders whether even the deity can understand his favorites. Witness the recent miscalculation of their mood by Charles de Gaulle, who presumed himself to be modern France incarnate. The challenge of trying to explicate such a capricious, restive and magnificently wrongheaded people is always strong. It has been stimulated lately by what the French discreetly call "the events" of May-June 1968 as well as by the general's abrupt departure...