Word: modernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...researchers make such a confounded mystery of modern man's deteriorated capacity for interceding in the affairs of his neighbors [July 18]? Any adult over 30 knows most of the answers. The obvious villains are civilization, urbanization and specialization. Since the disappearance of the frontier, we have become a race of emasculated, unarmed, untrained, helpless nonfighters, who live in a "packaged" mass-media dream world and have been brainwashed to leave the dirty work to trained professionals: police, doctors, lawyers, soldiers, firemen, plumbers, etc. We have seen too many heroes and do-gooders get shot, knifed, beaten, insulted, embarrassed...
...interdependent chain of life processes: certain birds becoming extinct, hauls of inedible fish, mysterious animal sickness. Environment will tackle, for example, the effects of such forms of pollution as DDT pesticides and radioactive waste, chemical fertilizers and hot water from nuclear power reactors; it will explore the cacophony of modern noises that grate on the nerves and damage living organisms; it will contemplate festering cityscapes as well as blighted landscapes; it will examine the visual pollution of ugliness that defiles the esthetic spirit and stunts man's ability to live in peace and harmony with nature...
...utilities. Making up in enthusiasm what he lacked in experience, Stefanski persuaded Stokes to start a massive effort to scrub the Cuyahoga, and hence aid Lake Erie. The proposed price tag: $100 million in bonds, to improve existing facilities and build 25 miles of trunk-line sewers plus a modern sewage treatment plant...
...Second Vatican Council. Last May the cardinal changed his tactics. He gave an interview to a French Catholic magazine, Informations Catholiques Internationales, which was quickly published in five other languages. It was perhaps the most encyclopedic indictment of outdated church practices by a ranking Roman Catholic cleric in modern times...
...MAYSLES brothers have thus picked up the cudgel in that tired old liberal crusade against the commercialization of religion. Implications might be drawn, weighty ones, about the nature of a commence-ransacked religion; about the everyday violence perpetrated by modern-day moneychangers of the cloth, about a ruling class' interest in the institutionalization of ecstasy through church structure. But the direct cinema aesthetic, in this case dedicated to just being there while a Bible salesman goes under, doesn't permit them. In its exposure of contradictions Salesman is a one-joke film; in intellectual content in never rises above Ferlinghetti...