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About half an hour into our trip, I find an alternative-rock station that I can groove to. It's called Fred, and it plays songs by Erasure, The Cure, Social Distortion. But wait! Why is my friend switching to that awful techno music? Luckily, we agree on some things...
Painting and sculpture from the 19th century and the first half of the 20th embody the taste of the local bourgeoisie: allegories to foster self-improvement, biblical scenes to inspire the faithful, nudity domesticated by classical settings, society ladies frozen for posterity in tight waists and inflated hairstyles. In contrast...
Artful equivocations are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our lynx eyes droop and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.’s...
Segal was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992 and served as president of the American Philological Association, the national society of classical scholars, in 1994. When the Philological Association gathered for its annual meeting last week, the group’s president began his opening...
But is all this really good for the future of currency? The euro’s bright colors, holograms, pictures and different sizes (based on denomination) all fly in the face of traditional America currency—green, dignified, classical and standard in size. The Treasury Department responded a few...