Word: ens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...easy to call Generation X a modern Decameron--an exchange of tales to pass the time, while avoiding the decay of the world outside. But Generation X could also be a Canterbury Tales for the 90's--pilgrims trading stories while en route to something better...
...Harvard event, a group of students marched to the subway station en masse, chanting, "Not the court. Not the state. Women must decide our fate...
...addition, the corner where the sukkah stands, tucked between the Owl and Spee Clubs and en route to Lowell and Winthrop, is frequently passed by students until late at night. Either the vandals were extremely careful to make no noise and attract no attention, or the crime took place after people had gone to bed, perhaps at 2:00 or 3:00 a.m., or even later. That people would go to such trouble on a cold weekend night to disturb and endanger Jews is extremely upsetting. It also implies a motive stronger than an ignorant impulse for destruction...
...SHOULD NOT be surprised when these people turn, en masse to charismatic and demagogic figures like Boris Yeltsin, or worse. They are not naive, but they will be increasingly desperate. When Poland's Lech Walesa promises a return to that old-time Catholic state, the youth grumble, Jeff Sachs pulls at his hair, and the Pope comes to town. Who listens? Those who don't know any better or those...
Seurat was a brilliant and highly self-conscious metteur en scene. His landscapes often possess the sense of anticipation one associates with an empty stage. (Hence they were a powerful influence on De Chirico, and on Surrealism generally.) Nowhere is this more piercing than in the large study for the landscape of La Grande Jatte, without its 50 or so people, its monkey and two dogs. The curtain has risen on this green paradise, and the cast will filter on, one at a time, throughout the subsequent studies -- the St.-Cyr cadet, the lady with the monkey but without...