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...would have been the first ones society would have wanted to reproduce. During the industrial age, however, brainpower began to count for more than muscle power. Presumably the custodians of cloning technology at that historical juncture would have faced the prospect of letting previous generations of strapping men and fecund women die out and replacing them with a new population of intellectual giants. "What is a better human being?" asks Boston University ethicist George Annas. "A lot of it is just...
...York City's Whitney Museum of American Art, is an interesting show of what is, ultimately, a spiky but fairly thin subject. Dadaism--its name made of baby-talk syllables, its intent to disorient bourgeois expectations of culture by any means possible--was a short-lived but fecund movement born and raised in Europe in the century's teens. It was more like a tiny religion than an art event, with a proselytizing spirit, a code of behavior, a core of the faithful, and a hope of transforming existence. It relied on irrationality, negation, sarcastic humor. Its most durable legacy...
Jewishness has proved to be Kitaj's sustaining theme, the source of his most fecund anxieties as well as his episodic pretensions. And why not? Today we have a lot of trivial art about identity, but that should not blind us to the qualities of serious identity-art when it appears-as, in Kitaj, it does...
Nonetheless, it is to be expected that different departments will have different standards of what undergraduates should know and how hard they must work. It is the diversity of approaches to knowledge and learning that make Harvard such fecund ground, and it is only through the diversity and independence of departments that Harvard can (through time) develop standards of educational excellence...
...course. Themes! Yes, themes abound, wonderfully packaged and ready for short-answer essays. Vitality and Birth are set off in verbal neon and illustrated with Lachaise's rather indelicate nudes. Like Nighttown in Joyce's Ulysses, the modernist future is promising. Molly Bloom is celebrated in all her fecund glory...