Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jason McManus: "Americans are arguing the shoulds and should-nots of issues as seldom before. In part, this is because our society and our technology have so increased the range of what is possible, whether it is prolonging life or profiting illicitly in the stock market. In some cases, ancient moral precepts address the problem; in others, wholly new ethical concepts may need to be forged. The new section will report on these vital moral struggles...
This is the time of season when the Ivy League turns to its annual two month round-robin tournament in which each Ancient Eight will face the seven others twice...
BEETHOVEN: SYMPHONY NO. 3 (L'Oiseau-Lyre). Christopher Hogwood leads the "Eroica," exhilaratingly performed on period instruments by the Academy of Ancient Music...
...attendance. It became commonplace to shoot movies abroad, beyond the easy control of studios. Hollywood's civility, soured by the blacklist that the studios said did not exist, was further strained by the expulsion of Actress Ingrid Bergman in 1949 for her adulterous love affair with Director Roberto Rossellini. Ancient history now; the author must explain that adultery once was shocking, and in other chapters, that Hollywood's casual, persistent racism and anti-Semitism in the '40s accurately reflected the larger society. His tone avoids the traps of moralism and amused superiority...
...happens in her rule, Aquino has already given her country a bright, and inviolate, memory. More important, she has also resuscitated its sense of identity and pride. In the Philippines those luxuries are especially precious. Almost alone among the countries of Asia, it has never been steadied by an ancient culture; its sense of itself, and its potential, was further worn away by nearly four centuries of Spanish and American colonialism. The absence of a spirit of national unity has also made democracy elusive. Even Jose Rizal, a political reformer shot by the Spanish and a national hero, called...