Word: modernizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...madness, a modern man believes himself to be Henry IV, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. He had been masquerading as such at a party on the night that he fell from his horse. As a result of this accident, he became mad and continued to play the part in a setting created by his friends--exactly like that of the historical Henry IV. After twelve years he regained objectivity but preferred to continue playing the emperor. If I understood correctly, the degree of his lucidity varies from time to time: Pirandello wanted to show that we are different people...
Morton, however, is very successful in his defense of the contemplative vocation and in his scorn for the modern Godless civilization. "The Quickening of St. John the Baptist" likens the members of a cloistered order to the unborn Baptist waiting in his mother's womb for the coming of Christ's mother, Mary, with the announcement of the anticipated birth of God, the Son. The speechless Trappists and Carmelites are "sealed in the dark and waiting to be born;" they are the sentinels that the world must post to hear "the first far drums of Christ...
...security has terribly hampered Vannevar Bush's discussion of the prospect of future war and its effect on what he calls "our society of free men." Bush, who as wartime head of the Office of Scientific Research and Development probably knows as much about the impact of science on modern warfare as anyone, sets down a double thesis: that a forthcoming war will not be very different from World War II, and that a democracy should be capable of preparing itself to prevent such...
There are amusing touches. The first accounts of Lincoln's shooting, taken off the New York Tribune wire, are as confused and contradictory as any modern disaster reports. Gettysburg sounds like two different battle from the reports of Virginia and Ohio correspondents--just as the latest war sounded incredible to readers of both American and Japanese dispatches...
...child of an Rh-positive father. The woman's Rh-negative blood then develops antibodies to destroy the alien Rh factor. She may transmit these antibodies to her infant's Rh-positive blood, where they attack the red cells and cause acute anemia (erythroblastosis fetalis). In modern practice there is an 80% chance of saving the infant's life promptly after birth, through a dramatic operation: the baby's blood is drained from its body and replaced with Rh-negative blood...