Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus spoke the founder of modern Zionism, the bearded Hungarian journalist Theodor Herzl, some years before he was buried at Vienna's Döblinger Friedhof in 1904. Last week, the body of Theodor Herzl was given a ceremonial reburial in the city that he had remembered without delight...
...city, barely half were engaged in "productive" labor. Therefore, the remedy was to cut its population in half, to change it from "a consumptive to a productive" place by uprooting non-productive citizens and sending them back to the land. Echoed one Red paper: "The ideal city of modern times is the 'garden city,' where the population should not be too large...
Last week, 120 teen-agers were hard at work on 550 hilly acres in upstate New York. Boys were digging potatoes, tending 75 dairy cows, painting, sandblasting a new oil storage tank, manufacturing cement blocks for new buildings, remodeling an old lodge into a modern residence hall. Girls were canning home-grown corn, washing & ironing, cooking and serving meals, doing secretarial work. They were the current citizens of the 54-year-old George "Junior Republic" at Freeville, N.Y., and though most of them were trying to make a second start in their young lives, all of them were there...
Michigan's Representative George Dondero thought he knew the answer to his own question, supplied it from the floor of the House last week. Modern art, he thinks, is not a matter of evolution (as Philosopher Ortega y Gasset contends-TIME, Aug. 22), but of revolution; in short, a Red plot "to destroy the enemy, and we are the enemy. So-called modern...art in our own beloved country contains all the isms of depravity, decadence and destruction...
...fact that Moscow frowns on modern art too (Pravda calls it "decayed, formalistic, bourgeois") gave Dondero no pause. He concluded his blast with the suggestion that U.S. artists be screened just as lawyers (and Russian artists) are: "Why should our highest art organizations have any different standard of membership than our bar associations? [For the bar] a candidate must pass the strict requirements of a character committee...