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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...concrete confines of the List Visual Arts Center. The works, however, which Mansen did while living in New York between 1989 and 1992, subtly begin to show that they are far more contemporary than they first appear, that Mansen has reinvigorated the traditional art of woodcut printing under the 20th-century influences of cinema and collage, and in reaction to changes that have taken place in his first medium, painting...

Author: By John T. Maier, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Domesticity, Modernity | 10/16/1998 | See Source »

...foundation both of Theodore Roosevelt's New Nationalism and of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Croly argued that democratic citizenship was fundamental to American identity. Recognizing that the people are sovereign, but "only insofar as they succeed in reaching and expressing a collective purpose," Croly concluded that by the 20th century, we could only fulfill our democratic potential by becoming "frankly, unscrupulously, and loyally nationalist." Josiah Royce, one of Croly's contemporaries, suggested a human-scale approach to nationalism. Specifically, he argued that we should seek "to train national loyalty through provincial loyalty...

Author: By Daniel Kemmis, | Title: The Path to True Democracy | 10/14/1998 | See Source »

...questions Freud asked turn our attention to problems that remain important for us," says Roth. "We didn't try to determine whether the answers he gave were always correct but how his questions influenced the 20th century. I'm not one of those who think we should forget about Freud entirely." Indeed, the whole brouhaha shows how difficult it is for everyone to forget about him. "The passion over this topic is amazing," says Ingrid Scholz-Strasser of the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna. "For a dead science, it seems pretty lively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Man and His Couch | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

...Puritan blackmailing of Clinton has stripped the 20th century of the vestiges of human dignity, knightly defense of gallantry and solemnity in public life. If Presidents do not comply with the requisites of Big Brother on strategic issues, no vulgarity is spared to get rid of them! TURHAN ISKIT Nettetal, Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 12, 1998 | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

...somewhat incognito in the alumni world. Aside from the occasional pornographic web page, it's hard to find much of anything about her. Raitt, on the other hand, having left after three years for a lucrative record deal, still remembered her alma mater fondly enough to write in her 20th anniversary alumni book: "I've spent the last 20 years having the great good fortune of getting paid to play music I love and to raise funds for various social causes I belive in. No sign of having to get a day job yet." In 1997, she returned to Cambridge...

Author: By Micaela K. Root, | Title: Why to drop out of school | 10/8/1998 | See Source »

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