Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...groups that follow the two dreams are as different as the dreams themselves. Paunchy suburban couples from Hartford and Los Angeles come to see Southern Hospitality. They are displeased with the increasing velocity of their modern life; and the sight of calm acres make them smile. They gladly plunk down their admission fees to see the remnants of the old days in Natchez and Richmond. They stay at hotels with names like The Plantation House, and go home convinced that heaven must be a little like the South...
...textured, rolling composition peppered with the dots that were his particular brushwork "signature." While the finished composition may seem to Western eyes much like other Chinese paintings, to scholars it is as different from the Sung realists as a Jackson Pollock from an Andrew Wyeth. It is also peculiarly modern. Says Cleveland's Lee: "At the heart of the whole modern concept of painting is the premise that technical skill is something almost anyone can acquire with effort, but great painting is a personal record of the artist for his own private ingroup, and he doesn't care...
Rarely in the 72-year history of the modern Olympic Games has another country managed to win more gold medals than the U.S. That event last occurred at Rome in 1960, when the Russians collected 43 to the Americans' 34 by scoring heavily in such events as gymnastics, Greco-Roman wrestling and canoeing. No such upset is likely in the 1968 Olympics, which begin next week in Mexico City. Though the competition will be tougher than ever, with a record 7,226 athletes from 119 countries, U.S prospects have never looked brighter, particularly in the major Olympic sports-track...
...inhumanity to man was once so limited by primitive technology that horror-story writers had to resort to ghosts, devils and other creaky props. Today's shapers of fictional barbarity have merely to invoke, with suitable exaggeration, the modern world. Computers, spaceships, nuclear weapons-these are the devices summoned in this fine first collection of 15 stories...
...camera is still a touch self-conscious. Too many zoom shots from point of view. Some angles which scream Staged, viz. shooting a collapse from behind a sofa so that suddenly the subject drops from sight. Some over-cute editorializing: Emilie walking beneath a marquee which proclaims "Thoroughly Modern Millie"; Elizabeth walking beneath a traffic sign which reads Playground. Hardly worth getting upset about...