Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Inside, Inland's new building makes widespread use of art-both paintings (the industrial scene by modern artists) and sculpture (stressing the use of steel under tension). "Of course, the most important thing is the sale of steel," said Art Collector Block. "But on the other hand, we believe that painting and sculpture belong in a modern office building to enhance its beauty...
...almost a foot longer and five inches wider. Wyoming's Democratic Senator Joseph O'Mahoney interrupted: "You say it is a better car because it is longer, wider and heavier. Have you received any complaints from people who believe these things are disadvantages? Do you think the modern car is too big?" "No, I don't," Curtice replied, added that he is just providing the public what the public wants. "Cars have attained their present dimensions as the result of popular demand...
...Quiet American (Figaro; United Artists). "Innocence," wrote Graham Greene in the novel from which this film is somewhat speciously taken, "is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm." The leper of modern history, as Greene sees him, is the American-he of the "young and unused face" who has made "a profession of friendship, as though it were law or medicine," and who goes about the world infecting whole continents with the botch of good will. On one level the book is a passionate editorial against U.S. innocence abroad. On another...
...scholar to Oxford, excelled his fellows by becoming a bachelor of arts at 15 (he was known as the Boy Bachelor). He was ordained a priest before he was 30. A tireless writer and an administrator with ruthless business acumen, Wolsey went after church posts like a modern tycoon buying up companies. He became Royal Almoner to young King Henry VIII on his accession in 1509, within three years was privy councilor and below the King the strongest figure in the government of England...
...Split. Wolsey created an apparatus of state about his King-the framework of a modern national administration. Henry himself grew under the cardinal's tutelage-one of the King's first diplomatic coups was a pious book presented to the Vatican, which won him the title still borne by British monarchs: "Defender of the Faith." Said the King's jester, wiser than his cardinal: "Prithee, Good Harry, let thee and I defend one another and leave the Faith alone to defend itself...