Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Three weeks ago in Calcutta, Siddhartha Ray, a bright young Congress Party minister in the West Bengal state government, resigned office with the angry charge that "the people who control the West Bengal Congress today [are] an unscrupulous section of rich industrialists, traders and businessmen-the privileged class of modern India...
Onetime stripper and sometime Littérateur Gypsy Rose Lee took a brief critical look at the sorry modern state of her old profession: "There's a great sameness to it all now. The routines of the young girls all look the same. The wardrobes look the same-they all look like they've been sewn by one seamstress. Good burlesque must be for both men and women. You can't appeal to only one element, and the presence of women makes for a much better audience-they make men laugh more...
...Lutheran confessions reached the New World nearly a century after their publication.* They remained a kind of sub-Scriptural scripture, and the attitude a modern Lutheran takes to them places him on the scale somewhere between liberal and conservative...
Said Physicist Tuve (rhymes with prove), concerned over the possibility of well-meaning overemphasis of science: "I believe that science must firmly be included among the liberalizing humanities in any honest assessment of modern thought." He proposed that teachers get pay raises for the quality of their teaching, "not only for longevity and for more degrees from schools of education...
Perhaps the weirdest thing about the book is the reconstructed conversations with Accomplice Dickie Loeb, who, in Leopold's recollections, speaks a weirdly dated slang. It is with a kind of horror that the modern reader finds an appalling crime described in a debased Tom Swift idiom. Writes Leopold: "Dick was in high spirits . . . 'That'll be a snap. Nate. Nothing to it.' " Says Loeb to Leopold, as they are planning to collect ransom for Bobby Franks: "Hey, this is neat, Nate-hey, I'm a poet!" When headlines announce: BODY OF BOY FOUND...