Word: closers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case. The film is already being used in schools and colleges to document the social climate in the border states in the early twentieth century. But its importance for the present is even more pronounced. Watching the cultural conflict between Cortez and his Anglo adversaries brings the audience closer to dealing with its own cultural biases. The tragedy that resulted from the language gap between Cortez and the sheriff underlines the need for appreciation and tolerance between cultures--needs still relevant to today's debates over bilingual education...
...only be thankful that George and his pack are allowed to maintain their autonomy of lupine identity--they're not vested with comforting little anthropomorphic traits that would make them seem at home mowing our neighbors' lawn. In fact, it is Mowat who consistently tries to come closer to the wolves' style of life, as his attempt to approximate their diet (mice) and territory-marking habits illustrate. These two comical and slightly disgusting episodes grow out of the film's deeply serious message, that it is not for us to quantify and tame nature, but simply to live...
...negotiation exercise was part of a two-day conference on resolving conflicts sponsored by the Kennedy School's one-year-old Business and Government Center. The Center is dedicated to "bringing the worlds of the public and private sectors closer to one another," said Director Winthrop Knowlton '53 last week...
...Year's Day deadline for the breakup of the giant Bell System draws closer, both the company and the Government are maneuvering like wide receivers before the ball is snapped, in most cases causing great confusion. Last week three pre-breakup decisions were announced. One will delay until April a scheduled rise in local phone bills...
...texture of life: these have fueled the reverie and invention of innumerable artists. From De Chirico's piazzas to Steven Spielberg's suburbs, our culture is intermittently fascinated by the noonday goblin-the sense that something is askew within the well lit, the ordinary, and that the closer you peer the odder it gets. Jennifer Bartlett, whose recent paintings are currently on view at the Paula Cooper Gallery in Manhattan, is a connoisseur of this kind of unease. There are exhibitions that mark a full assumption of powers: the idiom is assembled, the grammar wrought, the experiences wholly...