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...same dramatic topography inspired the 18th century economist Adam Smith, a hero of Brown's and a fellow alumnus of the local high school in Kirkcaldy, to think about the virtues of global trade. The ships Smith watched on the Firth of Forth, Brown says, carried both goods and people - Scottish emigrants leaving for the New World. "All the songs of Scotland are sad songs," Brown says, in a two-hour interview with TIME. "They're songs of departure about people who will never see each other again because they've gone to America." Brown, who is making a trip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gordon Brown in America | 4/16/2008 | See Source »

...inspiration for Adams House government, religion, and race relations residential tutor Barrett-Osahar Berry, who is both a poet and a photographer. Berry’s photographs of his recent spring break trip to China, which explored the compressive qualities of poetry, were featured with a poem by 18th-century Japanese poet Buson. Berry had been searching for a way to put his pictures to poetry and thought the unification of the two in the exhibit was successful. “The adjectives of the creative word seem better when you have an object to look...

Author: By Melanie E. Long, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'A' Is For April: Adams House Celebrates Poetry With Art | 4/11/2008 | See Source »

...Arts visiting lecturer Ruth Andrien worked with the Harvard dancers in preparing Paul Taylor’s famous piece “Aureole,” which was seen as shocking after its 1962 debut because of the dissonance between modern dance and George Frideric Handel’s 18th century music. For Koch, “Aureole” fit what she feels to be the show’s unarticulated theme of mixing forms of dance with slightly incongruous forms of music. “What’s really interesting is that each piece of music doesn?...

Author: By Sasha F. Klein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Winds Keep Dancer on Their Toes | 4/11/2008 | See Source »

...rich red and orange hues of the giant murals of Josef Mikl breathed new life into Vienna's 18th century Redoutensaal concert hall. In addition to winning praise for his abstract works in sculpture, drawing and painting, Mikl helped reinvigorate the art community and heal its wounds following the Nazi era in his native Austria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

...During her life, she was known by four different names, each representing a distinct chapter. In the course of the Stanley period, her family moved more than five times-from Kansas to California to Texas to Washington-before her 18th birthday. Her father, a furniture salesman, had a restlessness that she inherited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Story of Barack Obama's Mother | 4/9/2008 | See Source »

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