Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Time also changed the Paseo. Flashy new hotels rose behind the Paseo's stately trees. Wealthy families moved west to Chapultepec Heights. Automobile agencies hung their neon signs in the old mansion windows. Finally, city engineers decided that the 19th Century Paseo should become a modern six-lane concrete ribbon...
Pulp trash you say. But this is not entirely true. Wylie is consistently entertaining and his basic point that modern civilization completely ignores the instinctual nature of man (by building up a great taboo structure around sex relations, for example) is well taken. The various diatribes in which he elaborates on this central this are mostly accurate and uniformly provocative...
...Institute is to train a limited number of qualified students on a graduate level in Middle east Studies with particular emphasis on the political, social, and economic aspects of the modern and contemporary periods...
...more modern picture there is hardly enough dancing to whet the appetite. To make matters worse for the "Barkleys" Ginger Rogers took her interim foray in serious acting so serious as to attempt to portray Sarah Berahardt reading the Marseillaise. This is about the aesthetic equivalent of Jimmy Durante playing Abraham Lincoln at Get-tysburg...
...revolutionary armies of Zapata marched into Mexico City singing such songs as Valentina. Today's Mexicans still hear Valentina, as well as more modern ballads, as they bounce to work in battered buses over the capital's paved and cobbled streets. Sometimes the music is from the driver's radio. More often it is strummed by a wandering guitar player who has hopped aboard to travel free. As he plays, he croons; passengers sing with him. When he has finished, he passes...