Life had included him in its `` Modern American Artists '' series and had photographed him at his studio in the East Sixties ; ;

* 1923 – Percy Heath, American jazz musician ( Modern Jazz Quartet ) ( d. 2005 )

Modern American statutes define assault as:

* 1949 – David Robinson, American drummer ( The Modern Lovers, DMZ, and The Cars )

: The American style is used by most American newspapers, publishing houses and style guides in the United States and Canada ( including the Modern Language Association's MLA Style Manual, the American Psychological Association's APA Publication Manual, the University of Chicago's The Chicago Manual of Style, the American Institute of Physics's AIP Style Manual, the American Medical Association's AMA Manual of Style, the American Political Science Association's APSA Style Manual, the Associated Press ' The AP Guide to Punctuation and the Canadian Public Works ' The Canadian Style ).

Modern weapons include the Russian ZSU-23-4 Shilka and Tunguska-M1, South Korean K30 Biho and K263A1 radar-guided Vulcan, Chinese Type 95 SPAAA, Swedish CV9040 AAV, Polish PZA Loara, American M6 Bradley Linebacker and M1097 Humvee Avenger, Yugoslavian BOV-3, Canadian ADATS, aging German Gepard, Japanese Type 87 SPAAG and similar versions with the British Marksman turret ( which was also adapted for a number of other users ), Italian SIDAM 25 and Otomatic, and versions of the French AMX-13.

* Alexandra Dunphy, aka Alex Dunphy, character in popular American Television series " Modern Family "

In 1996 the American Society of Civil Engineers identified the tunnel as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World.

* Modern Jupiter, John Anderson Miller, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1958.

Modern North American football has its origins in various games, all known as " football ", played at public schools in England in the mid-19th century.

The sketches for Magic in Medicine and Modern Medicine were exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art's " New Horizons in American Art ".

" Commentary to Leviticus " in The Torah: A Modern Commentary, edited by W. Gunther Plaut, New York: Union of American Hebrew Congregations.

Modern American politics has been described as a duopoly since the Republican and Democratic parties have dominated and framed policy debate as well as the public discourse on matters of national concern for about a century and a half.

The success of selling Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health brought in a flood of money, which Hubbard used to establish Dianetics foundations in six major American cities.

* 1949 – Jerry Harrison, American musician ( Talking Heads and The Modern Lovers )

In June of 2012, Alex Schattner founded a blog featuring “ Modern American Folktales .” With this blog, Mr. Schattner is creating a new anthology of stories that use traditional folk and fairy tale devices to convey moral messages for our time.

Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement

Modern bullion coins for investment or collector purposes do not require good mechanical wear properties ; they are typically fine gold at 24k, although the American Gold Eagle and the British gold sovereign continue to be minted in 22k metal in historical tradition.

The Whitney was founded in 1931, as an answer to the then newly founded ( 1928 ) Museum of Modern Art's collection of mostly European modernism and its neglect of American Art.

Less likely is the commonly proposed derivation from Welsh arth " bear " + ( g ) wr " man " ( earlier * Arto-uiros in Brittonic ); there are phonological difficulties with this theory — notably that a Brittonic compound name * Arto-uiros should produce Old Welsh * Artgur and Middle / Modern Welsh * Arthwr and not Arthur ( in Welsh poetry the name is always spelled Arthur and is exclusively rhymed with words ending in-ur-never words ending in-wr-which confirms that the second element cannot be wr " man ").

The formal patterns of meter used in Modern English verse to create rhythm no longer dominate contemporary English poetry.

This can be compared to an ornamental use of alliteration in most Modern European poetry, where alliterative patterns are not formal or carried through full stanzas.

Since the late 1980s especially, prose poetry has gained increasing popularity, with entire journals, such as The Prose Poem: An International Journal, Contemporary Haibun Online and Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose devoted to that genre.

Modern poetry flourished especially in the 1930s, in the hands of poets like Zhu Xiang ( 朱湘 ), Dai Wangshu ( 戴望舒 ), Li Jinfa ( 李金发 ), Wen Yiduo ( 闻一多 ), and Ge Xiao ( 葛萧 ).

Jarman was the author of several books including his autobiography Dancing Ledge, a collection of poetry A Finger in the Fishes Mouth, two volumes of diaries Modern Nature and Smiling In Slow Motion and two treatises on his work in film and art The Last of England ( also published as Kicking the Pricks ) and Chroma.

An interest in short form Japanese poetry began in 1976 when he was asked to review Makoto Ueda's Modern Japanese Haiku ( University of Toronto Press, 1976 ).

Moving into the twentieth century, the modern Greek literary tradition spans the work of Constantine P. Cavafy, considered a key figure of twentieth century poetry, Giorgos Seferis ( whose works and poems aimed to fuse the literature of Ancient and Modern Greece ) and Odysseas Elytis, both of whom won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

They are currently co-authoring a book-Tricking the Impossible: An Investigation into Modern Alchemic Thought-about which Rimbaud asserts on Street Carnage that ' quantum is the new poetry of the soul '.

Not unlike the scop, which is related to Modern English scoff, the name skald is continued in English scold, reflecting the central position of mocking taunts in Germanic poetry.

" Modern literary critic Van Wyck Brooks wrote that Lowell's poetry was forgettable: " one read them five times over and still forgot them, as if this excellent verse had been written in water.

W. B. Yeats had the highest praise for Turner's poetry, saying that it left him " lost in admiration and astonishment ", and included some of it in his Oxford Book of Modern Poetry ( while omitting several authors very much better known today for their verse, such as Wilfred Owen ).

The various versions of this type of poetry, as known historically and to the general knowledge of the modern world, include two primary types, Classical Chinese poetry and Modern Chinese poetry.

Modern Chinese poetry ( 新诗 / 新詞 " new poetry ") refers to the modern vernacular style of poetry, as opposed to the traditional poetry written in Classical Chinese language.

Usually Modern Chinese poetry does not follow prescribed patterns.

* Modern Chinese poetry

However, the development and great expansion of Modern Chinese poetry is something to consider, beginning at this point, or shortly after.

The pronunciations of spoken Chinese changed quite a bit over the course of time from the oldest surviving written Chinese poetry, during the period of Old Chinese, through the Middle Chinese period ( which included the Tang Dynasty ), and up into the Modern Chinese period.

" She adds, however, that the period was important for laying the foundations for modern Hindi poetry, it did reflect sensitivity to social issues of the time, and the inelegance is a typical feature of a " young " poetry, as she considers Modern Hindi.

By now he had become Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge and had been honored by the award of the Order of Merit.

Modern Kabbalah developed by Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, in his writings about the future generation, focuses on how society could achieve an altruistic social framework.

Modern Algerian literature, split between Arabic, Kabyle and French, has been strongly influenced by the country's recent history.

Modern physics explains this by noting that the n = 1 state holds 2 electrons, the n = 2 state holds 8 electrons, and the n = 3 state holds 8 electrons ( in argon ).

Modern moorings may be anchored by sand screws which look and act very much like oversized screws drilled into the seabed, or by barbed metal beams pounded in ( or even driven in with explosives ) like pilings, or a variety of other non-mass means of getting a grip on the bottom.

Modern IFVs are well-armed infantry carriers, differencing from earlier APCs by their heavier armament allowing them to give direct-fire support during an assault.

Aeolus (, Aiolos, Modern Greek: ), a name shared by three mythic characters, was the ruler of the winds in Greek mythology.

Modern analytical chemistry is dominated by instrumental analysis.

* The Social Significance of the Modern Drama, a book by Emma Goldman, contains a chapter on A Doll's House.

Modern birds are characterised by feathers, a beak with no teeth, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a lightweight but strong skeleton.

Several Cyrillic alphabets with 28 to 44 letters were used in the beginning and the middle of the 19th century during the efforts on the codification of Modern Bulgarian until an alphabet with 32 letters, proposed by Marin Drinov, gained prominence in the 1870s.

During the 1960s, De Palma began making a living producing documentary films, notably The Responsive Eye, a 1966 movie about The Responsive Eye op-art exhibit curated by William Seitz for Museum of Modern Art in 1965.

Modern variants of the Batavian founding myth are made more credible by pointing out that the Batavians were only part of the ancestry of the Dutch people, together with the Frisians, Franks and Saxons, and by tracing patterns of DNA.

Modern scholarly thinking is that the books originated by combining a number of independent texts of various ages when the larger Deuteronomistic history ( the Former Prophets plus Deuteronomy ) was being composed in the period c. 630-540 BCE.

Modern Christian hymns have been inspired by the words of the prophet Habakkuk.

Modern drawing of the Phalanx formation employed by Greek hoplite s

Modern hospitals now have available spare parts to replace a part of the body that is badly damaged by injury or disease.

Modern Times ( film ) | Modern Times ( 1936 ), described by Jérôme Larcher as a " grim contemplation on the automatization of the individual "

Modern Times was announced by Chaplin as " a satire on certain phases of our industrial life.

Modern Times ( 1936 ), which depicted factory workers in dismal conditions, was the first of his films that was seen by critics to contain an anti-capitalist message, although Chaplin denied the film being in any way political.

" Smile ", composed originally for Modern Times ( 1936 ) and later set to lyrics by John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons, was a hit for Nat King Cole in 1954.