Word: foundedness
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Despite the tenets of alienation and disillusionment upon which punk and grunge were founded, the act of selling rebellion to the masses became dependent upon making music with far-reaching commercial appeal. Although this required the purveyors of such music to all but abandon the ethos of rebellion against the...
Like the portfolio of publications he controls, newspaper magnate Conrad Black transcends national categorization. Canadian-born and raised, he divides most of his time between Britain and the U.S. Earlier this year, motivated in part by bitterness over Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's refusal in 1999 to...
In recent weeks, we’ve heard a great deal about the connections of venerable American universities to slavery. Harvard Law School’s first endowed chair was funded with money made off of slavery in the Caribbean, where life was particularly miserable for slaves. The family that...
Then there are the great Southern universities, which were founded by slaveholders and that sought to justify slavery: the University of Virginia (founded by Jefferson); Washington and Lee (named after two slaveholders, one of whom was a leader of the war to maintain slavery); William and Mary and Randolph-Macon...
To's career is a series of pendulum swings, from popular movies to personal ones and back again. For a decade or so, he was just a bright face in the directorial crowd. He was brought in to save other men's movies, as in the hyper-violent The Big...