Word: expressionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The most astonishing ideological pirouette was performed by President Khamenei, who had seemingly tried to defuse the crisis a few days earlier when he spoke of Rushdie's possible repentance. But Khamenei sounded almost as fierce as the Ayatullah last week, saying of the death edict, "The long black arrow...
Despite all the ballyhoo about the $8 million price tag, the work onstage can appear modest, even a little tatty. The sets are mostly painted drapes, an awkward compromise between old-style realism and contemporary abstraction. There may be hundreds of costumes, but a lot of them look flimsy; they...
.For the purpose of this report we do not take the expression "affirmative action" to mean preferential treatment for disadvantaged groups....We take affirmative action to mean conscientious effort to counteract passive as well as active discrimination....Affirmative action involves vigorous effort to search beyond traditional networks; to broaden traditional...
Some students may not have attended because they believed that interpersonal racism, which the conference emphasized, is not as important as the more glaring problem of institutional racism. Minority children in single-parent homes, economic inequalities, unfair sentencing practices and persistent exclusion from influential positions haunt our country. But it...
The real problem with the Reagan administration's obsession with secrecy is the infringement on civil liberties. Prior censorship, life-long restictions on the free expression of government employees, and spying on library patrons are unconscionable violations of constitutional rights, and are inexcusable on any grounds--even national security concerns...