Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Swamps. By last week the results of Schmiedigen's labors were taking shape along the edge of Port-au-Prince's mountain-girt bay. The exposition with which Haitians hoped to crash the bigtime tourist business would be ready on time. A modern city bloomed on swamps where last year 15,000 Haitians lived in squalor. Between broad, flower-banked avenues stood half a dozen dazzling white official buildings that would serve later as government offices. Pavilions were rising for the U.N., the U.S., nine other countries...
Schoolmen themselves, says the FORUM. should study new methods of building, heating, lighting and ventilating. Instead of monumental, blocklike buildings, the modern school should be small and informal, neither too forbidding for its pupils to go to, nor too cumbersome for its principal to run. Its rooms should be cheery and colorful as any parlor, as sunny as any porch. All this can be accomplished, says the FORUM, if school boards follow the rules of common sense. Rule No. 1: hire a good architect...
Switzerland's Karl Earth, founder of the potent "neo-orthodox" movement in modern Protestantism, has so far completed six massive volumes of his Kirch-liche Dogmatik, which may turn out to be the most imposing theological work of modern times. But Calvinist Barth is more than a theologian's theologian; he can also write brilliantly for laymen. Readers who are not frightened away by the dry crackle of its title will find Christian challenge and mental stimulus in a new Barth book published last week, Dogmatics in Outline (Philosophical Library...
Rising proudly on a ten-acre plot on Soldiers Field Road stands WBZ's new three-million dollar radio and television center, and next to it the familiar 649-ft. transmission tower, the tallest structure in New England. Inside, an all-modern building houses the offices and studios of WBZ, WBZ-FM, WBZ-TV, and short-wave WBOS; the station realized two years ago that they were all too big to squeeze inside the old Hotel Bradford headquarters. Outside, next to the building, the high tower lights up the night sky and sends the station's FM and TV signal...
...Miriam Van Waters, head of the Framingham state prison for women, brought her state-wide campaign to arouse public interest in modern penology to the Canterbury Club (Episcopal) last night...