Word: expressionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The recent controversy involving basketball star Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf imploded before it became a central national concern. But it's almost unfortunate in light of the legal, religious and moral issues it raised: Was the NBA's action consistent with American ideals of freedom of speech and expression? Was the...
THE USUAL IMAGE OF IRISH DANCing is of a young girl wearing a fixed expression and tight ringlets, her arms pressed rigidly to her sides. Her legs? Ah, that's where the magic is: quicksilver taps, emphatic stamps and leg beats, ebullient kicks. The Irish dancer is a physically divided...
The problem with Alice is not so much its barrage of appalling imagery as the author's insistence on using the imagery to make naive, amorphous political statements. Homes says she was inspired to write Alice after Jesse Helms' attacks on the National Endowment for the Arts. "I was responding...
The situation blatantly mirrors that of an Afrikaner school board in South Africa that recently stated that they would rather close down than allow black students to enroll. In the end this hate gets everyone no where. Homosexual students will still live in Utah and maintain the expression which is...
The female Harvardesqueness is denied expression in so multi-collegiate and diverse a setting. The Harvard woman, usually so unique, usually so assertive and usually so individualistic is in this social context merely one of many. While the men actively choose the groups of women with which they wish to...