Word: eclecticism
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For Meier, 50, who recently won the commission to design a new $100 million-plus arts and humanities complex for the J. Paul Getty Trust, the problems posed by the tableware project were part of the attraction. Says he: "I was interested in objects that could be mass-produced and...
Dole is conservative in his voting record, but he has made barbed attacks on supply-side economics and staunchly defends such traditionally liberal measures as the food stamp program and the Voting Rights Act. His eclectic stands have made him a target of the so-called young Turks, a highly...
The art of European civilization simply makes no sense without its spiritual spine, the Bible. So say British Critic Bruce Bernard and Art Historian Sir Lawrence Gowing in The Bible and Its Painters (Macmillan; 300 pages; $24.95), an opinionated and amply illustrated survey of biblical themes in more than 200...
MIT runs two nine-week program per year for the same price as Harvard's, and it also chooses an eclectic approach to teaching. "Our faculty are free to consider what teaching method works best to get their message across," explains Scott Duncan, administrative head of the MIT program.
Sound tantalizing? Well, it is all within earshot if your radio is tuned to one of the 277 American Public Radio affiliates across the country, any one of which might feature just such an eclectic sampling. These stations air not only Keillor's whimsically witty Prairie Home Companion but...