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While much of academia considers the abstract or the obscure, international development issues are concrete and of enormous relevance. Those seriously concerned about human welfare have a responsibility to learn about and fight for the billions of people who, by accident of birth, do not live in rich countries. As well as teaching Harvard students, the CID seeks to educate decision-makers in the outside world; it regularly speaks to legislators, aid workers and philanthropists about how best to help those who need it most...
...rush to agreement was most visible in the first topic of the evening, foreign policy. It was wise of moderator Jim Lehrer to ask the candidates which recent U.S. military actions they supported, especially since so much of the campaign's foreign policy arguments have been on the abstract and philosophical level. However, the answers were not always illuminating, as Texas Gov. George W. Bush repeatedly praised the foreign policy decisions of the Clinton Administration. Bush noted his preference for using the military in war-fighting rather than "nation-building" activities and argued for a more narrow view of what...
...bedridden Guston himself, that the fairy-tale sphinx of "Nile" (1977) is an ailing wife. Symbolic, after all. But, as Guston reminisces in the excellent film documentary of his career, A Life Lived (1980), on view at the back of A New Alphabet, his turn away from abstract expressionism in the 1970s toward a new sort of figuration was motivated precisely by a desire to get back to "the real," to things as they are, "just things...
...Alphabet demonstrates, Guston struggled throughout the 1960s to reconcile his growing desire for concrete figuration with his already accomplished style of abstract expressionism. As a respected contemporary of such American masters as Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, he had won numerous awards, including two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Ford Foundation grant and the prestigious Prix de Rome. Still, something was missing; abstraction was increasingly alien and even boring to him. On his gray canvases of the 1960s, amorphous black head-shapes began to appear, laboring to push, as it were, out of the ether behind them. Then...
...lyrical gymnastics cutting up and reordering the world, while others, such as Public Enemy, used the format as a platform for social criticism and a revival of the nationalist politics of Malcolm X. De La Soul and Tribe Called Quest were among the leaders of an imaginative school of abstract poetics that stretched the envelope of the hip-hop form and sought to connect it with earlier musical traditions such as bebop, but elsewhere 2 Live Crew were appropriating the frenetic Miami drum-and-bass sound to weave lascivious sexual fantasies that got local authorities screaming to shut them down...