Word: culturale
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Given that history, it is all the more puzzling that just a few months later, Rothko would agree to provide work for a restaurant in the newly completed Seagram Building. The commission came by way of Philip Johnson, the American architect and peerless cultural middleman, who had collaborated on the...
That virtue died with the baby boom, but it had been ailing ever since the Depression, argues cultural historian David Tucker in The Decline of THRIFT in America. That crisis, he writes, invited economists to recast THRIFT as "the contemptible vice which threw sand in the gears of our consumer...
When Bear Stearns collapsed in March, The New York Times described the storied Wall Street investment bank as “a throwback to a bygone era,” a place with a “cigar-chomping, suspender-wearing culture where taking risks was rewarded.?...
There is a certain post-structuralist vibration to this modern political climate of spin wars and smear campaigns; operatives on both sides of the aisle seem to share—have been forced to share—the belief that ‘truth’ is an abstraction, and...
It might be tempting to label this low level of analysis as a debasement of the ongoing political dialogue in this country, for its ignorance of practical policy standpoints and cultural dynamics. However, there is a growing body of research that suggests much of voting preference is, like amour fou...