Word: modernness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Revitalization is quickly becoming a motif of the modern American metropolis. City after city is trying to rejuvenate decayed downtown and waterfront areas. Skyscrapers rise like phoenixes where factories and tenement houses once stood. In Baltimore, a decrepit harborplace was turned into a yuppie shopping and eating complex in just a few years. New York's waterfront suffered a similar facelift with the creation of South Street Seaport, a shopping plaza akin to Faneuil Hall. And the trend has spread to East Cambridge...
Professors also said that Mahfouz was recognized for his literary style. Mahfouz is "the father of the modern Arabic short story," said professor of modern Arabic Wilson B. Bishai...
...some missionaries, the experience gave them new insight into what they wanted to do with their lives. Griffin, a biochemistry major before his mission, is now majoring in history and science, focusing on modern German history. "My desire to do pure science definitely changed, and I also wanted to interact with people," he says...
Usually intrusions like that put me in a foul mood, but that day it just seemed part of the scenery. Even tourism blends calmly with daily life in the North End, and modern living mingles easily with history...
Past the stores--musical instruments, bakeries, cafes--we continue to follow the red line. Somehow, inexplicably, we end up inside another church, the Old North Church. It is showtime again there, with a thoroughly modern Episcopalian minister as the history teacher/fundraiser...