Word: modernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tshombe still sits in an Algerian jail, caught in a mid-air kidnaping in 1967. Such is the climate of the times that fifteen planes have been hijacked to Cuba so far this year. On a larger scale, the latest Soviet-East German squeeze on West Berlin is a modern-day refinement of the ancient tactics of siege...
...begun to fade. Primitive diplomacy-or undiplomacy-is increasingly back in style, partly because the world's two great powers are locked in a nuclear stalemate. Neither the United States nor the Soviet Union is free to simply send in a gunboat to sort out an awkwardness. Modern communications link the world so closely together that a raw display of power in Pyongyang, for example, may produce severe reverberations in Moscow almost instantly. In addition, even small nations today have enough firepower of their own to blow an unfriendly gunboat out of the water. And the bipolar alliances that...
Last week the Atheneum reopened after undergoing a $4,700,000 renovation and sprouting a new wing. The new building, nondescript modern in style, projects out from the Atheneum's original Gothic Revival castle and connects it with a 1930s addition of equally indeterminate character...
...original modern dance work by Lindsay A. Crouse '70, will premiere at 8:30 p.m. Feb. 27 at Agassiz Theatre. The Dance Theatre Company of Cambridge, a student group, will appear with Miss Crouse. AIR features original music by Peter S. Ivers...
RIDGEWAY sees the central fact about modern American universities as being their conversion into centers of industrial activity. "The professors." he concludes, "are less interested in teaching students than in yanking the levers of their new combines so that these machines will grow bigger and go faster. The university has in large part been reduced to serving as a banker broker for the professors' outside interests. The charming elitism of the professors has long since given way to the greed of social and political scientists whose manipulative theories aim only at political power." The body of The Closed Corporation seeks...