Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EIGHTEENTH century France bequeathed to the modern world the concepts of revolution and popular democracy-and last week the French seemed bent on perilously trying to practice both at the same time. As the campaign to elect a new National Assembly got underway, rioting and violence erupted anew in cities throughout France. For a while it looked as though the explosion of police concussion and tear-gas grenades might blot out the appeals for votes by the 2,260 candidates running on broadly diverse platforms in Metropolitan France's 470 electoral districts...
Progress and Modern Democracy (P.D.M.) Leader: Jacques Duhamel, 43 Seats: 42 Candidates...
...philosopher Maimonides. He joined the Zionist underground in 1936, was a sniper in Jerusalem during the Palestine war. and became chief rabbi of the Israeli army when it was formed in 1948. Throughout the fighting, Goren also played an active role in a rabbinical committee assigned to study the modernization of Halakah. The committee's findings proved too controversial even to be published, let alone adopted, in Israel. One closely reasoned recommendation by Goren held that the Biblical proscription against the use of fire on the Sabbath should not prevent Orthodox Jews from using electricity, since modern physics...
Died. Patricia Jessel, 47, mistress of theatrical malice, whose dark hair and darker voice were just the ticket for mystery lovers on both sides of the Atlantic; of a heart attack; in London. Although a versatile Shakespearean actress, the Hong Kong-born performer found her real metier as a modern villainess, won fame (and a Tony Award) for her portrayal of the calculating wife in the 1954 Broadway run of Witness for the Prosecution...
...museum." Shows are often scheduled on the basis of requests found in the suggestion box, giving local residents, as Kinard points out, a real feeling of "this is our thing." Even the reality of violence in the ghetto is being dramatized; last month Washington's Gallery of Modern Art put on view 66 pieces of sculpture assembled by Los Angeles Artists Noah Purifoy and Judson Powell from three tons of charred wood, stained plaster, bent wire, broken dolls and burnt-out machinery culled from the wreckage of the 1965 Watts riots...