Word: ultramodernism
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Park Forest, a junior-executive suburb 30 miles south of Chicago's Loop, is as meticulously planned as any postwar community in the nation. Its 31,000 residents live mainly in ranch houses, shop in glossy supermarkets, generally vote Republican, send their children to ultramodern schools. Late last month, into Park Forest moved a new family-Charles Z. (for Zachary) Wilson, 30, an assistant professor of economics at De Paul University, his wife and their three pre-school children. Some of the neighbors dropped in to welcome them, offer assistance, invite Mrs. Wilson to neighborhood coffee klatsches. Ethel Klutznick...
Last week he was busy filling orders for 15 ore carriers, bulk carriers, tankers and escort vessels for U.S. companies and the German navy. His ultramodern yard sends ships down the ways so fast that Schlieker does not even bother to take down tents and grandstands used for launching ceremonies. The 300,000-sq.-ft. yard has the biggest (capacity: 100,000 tons) drydock in Europe, an optical tracing device that projects cutting patterns on steel plates. Overseeing all is an electronic brain named "Big Brother" that tells Schlieker which machines have not worked at full capacity and why. From...
...main functions of physicians," Boston Psychiatrist Frank Ervin noted last week, then added: "Ironically, it's one of the things we do least well-partly because we don't understand it." But Dr. Ervin is one of a Massachusetts General Hospital research team that is using ultramodern brain surgery both to subdue the severest forms of pain and to learn more about pain's mechanisms...
Museum Director Lee Malone says: "All this space is so majestic, so flexible." To prove it last week Director Malone put on a display of 60 ultramodern paintings (e.g., France's Hans Hartung and Manhattan's Mark Rothki), hung each picture from the ceiling on picture wire to provide an installation as nearly invisible as the museum's own structure. Donor Cullinan said happily: "The new wing is like a great stage which faces the city. Another might have built a nice, safe building. I wanted something that would be contemporary for generations to come." Touring...
...from repression of instinctual drives, but from the fact that too many people feel that life has lost its meaning for them. This, he argued, brings normal, "existential" anxiety to the surface. Nowadays, when people first sense this normal anxiety, they may still repress it, and consequently develop an ultramodern form of neurotic anxiety with symptoms of depression, blocking in regard to work, despair and melancholy summed up in the cry, "What I do isn't worth anything." The trouble lies, says May, in dammed-up potentialities rather than repressed instincts...