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...they feel patronized, that's too bad,'' replied Spong. "I'm not going to cease being a 20th century person for fear of offending somebody in the Third World...
...talking to." The questions from the audience matched its diversity, and the contradictions of McCain were on full view. "That's out-and-out racism," he said in response to a question about Bob Jones University. "I would tell them, 'Get out of the 16th century and into the 20th century.'" That was the moderate, tolerant, swinging John McCain talking. But then on a question about public funding for artists like photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, whose erotic scenes of mostly gay men incensed North Carolina's Senator Jesse Helms, McCain didn't dodge the bullet: "Some people may call it artistic...
...conceived in the 19th and first half of the 20th century, a liberal education was, to a considerable degree, the antithesis of a professional education," he said. "There is now much more career preparation at the undergraduate level--whether it is pre-med courses or the like...
...capital, leaving the Names to play only a minor role. But even with this corporate cash, Lloyd's capacity to write insurance is lower today than it was in 1990. Meanwhile, Lloyd's share of the worldwide insurance market has fallen from 10% at the beginning of the 20th century to less than 2% today. Even the insurer's name has been diminished. No longer the sonorously alliterative Lloyd's of London, since 1997 it has been just Lloyd...
...moods evoked in the course of Mee's play, now running at the American Repertory Theatre. "Full Circle" is loosely based on a 13th-century Chinese fable called "The Chalk Circle," but it owes even more to the "The Caucasian Chalk Circle," a play by early 20th century German playwright (and confirmed communist) Bertholt Brecht. Rather than simply updating Brecht's version for a new millennium, however, Mee undermines it by setting his story during the fall of the Berlin Wall...