Word: avante
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...Past and the Punishments, a collection of Yu's short stories, a young girl is eviscerated by cannibals. Elsewhere in the anthology, a murderer is himself dissected by blas? organ harvesters. Yu meant to critique a Chinese society whose capacity for cruelty can still astonish, but even his avant-garde peers were a bit put off. "I can't imagine what kind of brutal tortures patients endured under his cruel steel pliers," the author Mo Yan once wrote...
...think Harvard can be an isolating place, a competitive place, a place where the avant-garde, the intellectual and the sophisticated are heavily valued. That’s difficult for me, both as a person and a writer. Who says you can’t learn from inclusion? Sometimes I think some Harvard students presume they have figured poetry out. I think that’s unfortunate...
...said he is willing to take part in the performance in whatever capacity the students decide, whether it’s playing the Samchillian or dying his hair blue onstage. But despite Gruenbaum’s preference for wacky, avant-garde art, he said that he doesn’t want to force students to be “weird like...
...active member of the International Congress of Modern Architecture (CIAM)—an informal, avant-garde association of European architects—Sert became involved in an international effort to strengthen urban centers in the face of a trend towards the abandoning of urban cores. This was seen as a problem both in Europe after the physical devastation of World War II and in the U.S. with ever increasing suburbanization due to the automobile. The group sought to create “new ‘hearts of the city’ that would become unique centers of collective...
Amid the student protests and social idealism of the sixties, avant-garde architects such as Sert saw the opportunity to use the University as a living laboratory. The most visible of these projects, a darling of Modernist architects, was an approach to building with pre-fabricated components. The modular concrete panels and brightly colored brise-soleil baffles of the Holyoke Center are indicative of Sert’s larger social goals of implementing low-cost building techniques for housing...