Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final speaker of the European group was Seamus O'Neill, professor at Dublin University, Ireland, who argued that modern poetry in Ireland has flourished even since the death of W.B. Yeats...
...Arshile Gorky, who early imitated Picasso, then the surrealists, finally broke through to a style of his own combining strange anatomical images and fragments of observed nature. Emerging early as the most noted was Pollock, hailed by some European painters and critics as the first great innovator in modern art since the birth of cubism-and hooted at by others. Wrote Critic John Russell in London's Sunday Times after seeing a Pollock painting in 1956: "I will not say that I was prejudiced against Mr. Pollock's picture by the fact that he made it by pouring...
Core of the problem for the Foreign Service and for the next generation of journalists, pay-later tourists, and businessmen abroad: 56.4% of U.S. high schools, according to the report, do not teach even one foreign language. Less than 15% of public high school students are enrolled in a modern foreign-language course (almost none study ancient languages). Most take French or Spanish; rare are courses in Russian, Chinese, German, Italian or Portuguese. Even students exposed to languages may not take on enough ability to read a menu. Weighting the odds against the student, according to the report: ill-taught...
...Modern Jacobins? There is agreement on this point from Roman Catholic Layman William Clancy, education director of the Church Peace Union (an interfaith organization aimed at abolishing war), and Arthur Cohen, a Jew and publisher of Meridian Books Inc. Both agree that (as Cohen puts it) religion in the U.S. is apt to be "ineffective," victimized by "internal confusion and disorder," generally "deteriorating," and that (in Clancy's words) religion is apt to be a matter of good fellowship and good works, with the American "consensus" on moral and philosophic principles growing ever narrovver...
...scrambling out on the swaying yards to clew up a topgallant sail, growing calluses on his knees from holystoning the wooden decks with "Bibles" (big stones) and "prayer books" (little ones). Though experiences in a square-rigger would seem to be of small use to the master of a modern liner, Bisset insists there is no better training. Any man in sail had to learn to make right decisions instantly, he argues. That Jimmy Bisset learned his lesson well is shown by his accident-free later service. On the Queen Mary he carried as many as 15,000 U.S. soldiers...