Word: historians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...museum's fewer than fifty inhabitants were isolated from the daily bustle of Beijing. They were not allowed outside after 9 p.m. "In the evenings they locked the gates, like in ancient times. Life there had nothing to do with modern China at all," says the art historian and amateur artist...
That warning echoed in the aftermath of last week's election as triumphant Democrats let their hopes rise for a resurgence in national leadership. As if Roosevelt's ghost had sponsored him, Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., a biographer of F.D.R., showed up in Washington to extol his new book, The Cycles of American History, and offer his own resonant warnings that the "worship of party" could swallow up the purposes. "One wishes that the ^ intellectual energy expended in recent years on procedural reform had been devoted instead to the substance of our problems," wrote Schlesinger. "Nor are substantive problems...
...fact, professors often teach outside the discipline they did graduate work in. At St. John's it is not uncommon to find a historian teaching calculus...
...advisable when visiting the Morris Louis retrospective now on view at New York City's Museum of Modern Art to recall the claims made for this painter ten or 15 years ago. In such work, the art historian Michael Fried once wrote, "what is nakedly and explicitly at stake . . . is nothing less than the continued existence of painting as a high art." It contained "unimagined possibilities for the future of painting." One chews on this, moving from one sweetly august canvas to the next, enjoying the floods and diaphanous veils of color, the sheaves of burning stripes, the technical control...
...social historian's most recent project involves working with a study group at the K-School investigating public policy options for handling the AIDS epidemic. The Reagan Administration, he says, has not paid enough attention to AIDS as a serious problem, not providing adequate funding and "hoping it will go away...