Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Poundstone ridiculed the idea of 1993 as the "Year of the Woman," asking, "What fat white guy came up with that phrase...
...reaction to such a pointedly political award was predictable. Greenpeace, which has been trying to stop the French tests by sailing small boats into the target zone, hailed it as a "fantastic decision." The French government, on the other hand, congratulated the winners and applauded the idea of disarmament--but insisted that its tests would continue to ensure a worldwide "security climate." Rotblat, reached by the Nobel committee at his home in the London suburb of Cricklewood, was beaming. "When I woke up this morning," the professor emeritus at the University of London told reporters, "I didn't expect...
...DUTCH ARTIST PIET MONdrian, along with the Russians Kazimir Malevich and Wassily Kandinsky, was one of the three founding fathers of 20th century abstract painting. The period 1910-20, when their ideas were in their first messianic flood, is a long way from us now, and the very idea of abstract art has lost some of its old modernist prestige; nobody supposes it could have become, as its makers and early evangelists supposed, the ultimate art form, the end of art history. And yet Mondrian remains an artist of extreme importance, not only because of the historic inventiveness...
...that his grids, representing nothing but themselves and, as Plato said of his perfect solids, "free from the itch of desire," could demonstrate a universal order, an essence that underwrote the mere accidents of the world as it is. Reach that essence, and consciousness would be transfigured. This mystical idea had a long history, running from Plato through medieval Catholicism and thence to the pseudo religion of Theosophy, to which Mondrian adhered in his youth in Holland...
...TAKE ON SOCIAL DARWINism? I despise the idea of training the young to be emotionally efficient little robots. Backers of EQ seem to imply that parents should supplement their kids' daily intake of vitamins with Prozac to ensure their success. The liberty to obey the caprices of our emotions, no matter how politically incorrect, should be one of the few bastions of freedom we allow ourselves to defend. SADIA SHAH Colleyville, Texas...