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After the Bauhaus school closed in 1933, Kandinsky and his wife, Nina, went to France, settling in Neuilly-sur-Seine. Instead of being surrounded by like-minded colleagues, he was now somewhat isolated. He had been experimenting in new directions before he left the Bauhaus, but his isolation, and freedom from the need to be didactic, may explain the playfulness that breaks out in his work. He carefully mixed colors - sage, sky blue, maroon - and experimented with texture, using controlled paint splatter for a sandy effect. Nothing is still: in Colorful Ensemble (1938) the splatters are a background of dots...
...Catholic bishops set up to fight gay marriage. He too sees a potential future when a greater acceptance of homosexuality leads to pressure on churches to conform, and even to change their teachings. "There are grave threats that decisions by the courts, legislative actions or regulations could erode religious freedom," Kurtz tells TIME. "With regard to marriage, this implicates the right of Catholics to practice our beliefs. Here we are talking about the bedrock of society, it's not just a belief, it's written on the hearts of every human person...
...rather his first lady. Zuma, who will almost certainly be confirmed in the coming days, is an unabashed polygamist. That's just one of the personal quirks causing some foreigners to shudder at the prospect of Zuma assuming control of one of Africa's most successful democracies. An uneducated freedom fighter who hoisted himself out of poverty and served a prison sentence alongside Nelson Mandela under South Africa's Apartheid regime, Zuma is heralded as a canny politician whose rough-hewn populism - his unofficial song is the Zulu anthem "Bring Me My Machine Gun", which he's been known...
...which another literary creation will emerge. He said that art presents the problems of the country to the readers or the viewers, and that it is this explicit awareness that art brings that stimulates progress. “It is when we become comfortable and forget to fight for freedom that we run into problems,” Fuentes said. “This kind of event and being able to host such an influential speaker is very important, first of all, for the Latin-American community at Harvard,” said Christopher J. Hollyday...
...that they are directly elected will help to divert anger at administrative shortcomings and other problems away from the Party, something that will be especially welcome to cadres at a time when many returning migrants may not be as willing to unthinkingly accept orders from above after the relative freedom they enjoyed while working in cities. "The people who have spent a long time in the cities are going to have a heightened sense of participation," says Yawei Liu of the Atlanta-based Carter Center's China Elections Project, which has spent years monitoring the evolution of the village elections...