Word: modernization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Collected Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1982). An assembly of 47 fictions -- teeming with demons, dybbuks and exuberant men and women -- that remains the best introduction to the Nobel laureate and world-class writer who transformed Old World folktales into modern...
...Modern Times by Paul Johnson (1983). The former editor of Britain's New Statesman has the crust and style to pinpoint evil in an age of moral relativism, and he is not talking about Gordon Gekko's affirmative views on a greedy decade. The villains are the tyrants of both the left and the right who have perpetrated outrages in the name of the modern secular state...
...Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes (1987). A modern variation on the theme of stealing fire from the gods, this saga about the beginning of the nuclear age, from inspiration to detonation, is one of the great stories of the 20th or any other century, and Rhodes has told it better than anyone before...