Word: agee
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...Italy (1860). Burckhardt's study of Italian altarpieces, originally published in German a year after his death in 1897, remains magisterially informative. And the accompanying reproductions, including work by Botticelli, Fra Angelico, Titian and Michelangelo, do more than supplement Burckhardt's text. They provide miraculous glimpses of an age when the artistic impulse and religious devotion were one and the same...
...been a long struggle really--players have changed, standards have changed, conditions have changed. Today, Afro-American studies in literature have levels of prestige never before attained. We are in a mini-Golden Age," Rampersad says. "But we've got to remember the struggle--the Black academic community must understand what the field is all about...
Media interest in drunk driving peaked in 1983 after the fierce lobbying efforts of MADD and other groups resulted in harsher anti-drunk driving legislation and the raising of the drinking age, says DeJong. He cites work done by MADD and the Department of Transportation as "changing the way people view the problem of drunk driving, not seeing it as just one of those things that happens, no longer viewing it as much as an 'accident...
...most European nations, students begin learning one foreign language at age 11, and often add a second three or four years later. In the United States, 1985 statistics show, only 15 percent of high school students study any foreign language at all, and less than 4 percent of high school graduates have had more than two years of a foreign language...
Chandler is not, of course, the only American writer with a centenary this year who worked in a British bank, steeped his writing in the classics and explored the breakdowns of the age in cadences so memorable that he seems to have taken up a time-share ownership of Bartlett's. But T.S. Eliot was an American who found his voice in England, and in books. Chandler, by contrast, was an honorary Brit who smuggled two foreign substances into Hollywood -- irony and morality -- and so gave us an unflinchingly American voice, the kind we hear in the rainy voice-overs...