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...brunch was the second in a series of discussions between the Hillel and SAS. The first brunch focused on more abstract and scholarly themes, such as political and economic development in the Mideast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hillel, SAS Hold Brunch Discussion on Conflict in Lebanon | 5/6/1996 | See Source »

...that if Norfolk's crosstown busing continued, the whole school system would soon become 75% black, making racial balance impossible. "Civil rights groups have always discounted the importance of whites," he says today, "which has always been a mystery to me. It's as though their goal were some abstract equity thing, as opposed to actual integration." The court accepted Armor's argument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE END OF INTEGRATION | 4/29/1996 | See Source »

...possible to run an empire on documents, and they replaced the stylus by the 2nd century A.D. It is notoriously difficult for Westerners to "get" Chinese calligraphy for the obvious reason that we can't read it and so can only admire it, more or less ignorantly, as abstract brush drawing. And yet its range of expressive power comes through marvelously in this show. At one extreme we see the almost chiseled formality of the 12th century Emperor Hui Tsung's script, with its flicking exactness of stroke; at the other, the blithely spontaneous notation of the 8th century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: TREASURES OF THE EMPIRE | 4/29/1996 | See Source »

...background to intensely seen trees and tiny human figures--achieved a relationship between notation and object that would make any draftsman, Eastern or Western, faint with envy. The blots, scribbles, hatchings, scumblings and flicks of the brush build up a world of microforms that seems at once abstract and dense with specific experience. No wonder Beijing wants all this back; no wonder Taipei is determined to keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: TREASURES OF THE EMPIRE | 4/29/1996 | See Source »

...just want to do something more abstract and creative," he says. "I don't want to have fun in a drunken sort of way. [Playing with Skavoovie] is the way I can see myself having...

Author: By Kathryn R. Markham, | Title: Ska on the Road, But Not for Long | 4/27/1996 | See Source »

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