Word: expressionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"It was the fullest expression of the democratic spirit of what America could be," he said.
JUST BEFORE THE SENATE VOTED last week on its welfare-reform bill, New York's Daniel Moynihan, who had engineered his own revision in 1988, demanded a bit of rare institutional solemnity. Since most of his fellow Democrats would be embracing what he considered a historic betrayal of the poor...
Empathy too can be seen as a survival skill. Bert Cohler, a University of Chicago psychologist, and Fran Stott, dean of the Erikson Institute for Advanced Study in Child Development in Chicago, have found that children from psychically damaged families frequently become hypervigilant, developing an intense attunement to their parents...
"There's that expression--it takes a village to raise a child--and in many ways I think that's what the house is," Hafrey says. "A village."
Even cut down it may continue in this role, as part of Harvard's annual capital campaign. A potential plan is to create discs from the saved wood of the removed portions of the tree, which might be presented to financial donors to the Arboretum as an expression of gratitude...