Word: 18th
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...need to adopt a new method, which I call "clinical economics," to underscore the similarities between good development economics and good clinical medicine. In the past quarter-century, the development economics imposed by rich countries on the poorest countries has been too much like medicine in the 18th century, when doctors used leeches to draw blood from their patients, often killing them in the process. Development economics needs an overhaul in order to be much more like modern medicine, a profession of rigor, insight and practicality. The sources of poverty are multidimensional. So are the solutions. In my view, clean...
...conducts himself in public. Patrick Healy, who previously wrote about Summers for the Globe in the late 1990s, and Sara Rimer, an education reporter who has been covering the current saga for the Times, were given an interview with the University President in his office on Feb. 18th, where he discussed what it was like to hold his job over the course of the previous month...
...Chadha (Bend It Like Beckham) proves her directorial versatility by offering up a classic tale from Western culture, but tinting it with a distinctly Eastern lens. As the title suggests, the movie is an adaptation of the Jane Austen classic Pride and Prejudice, but instead of taking place in 18th century England, the camera takes us through modern-day India, London, and Los Angeles...
...seventy-odd Japanese scrolls and objects currently on display at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum do not speak Japanese. What led Sylvan Barnet and William Burto, the collectors, to purchase their first piece in the 1960s––a scroll by Jiun Onko from the 18th century, which hangs in the exhibition––was its similarity to the aesthetic of modern art, especially abstract expressionism. This is the connection that permits a non-specialist to even approach the doors of the exhibition. “Marks of Enlightenment, Traces of Devotion: Japanese Calligraphy...
...deceased son, Israel, which provides a startlingly graphic yet real and passionate description of the way a person like Boone might react to seeing his young son’s buzzard-ridden carcass. Despite the inherently unfamiliar nature of the work, set roughly in the latter half of the 18th century, the elements of human nature are stunningly resonant with the contemporary reader...