Word: interestedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even though it has led to sleepless nights in my past and now plagues my friends, the culture of commitment is ultimately what keeps me interested in school. If I had this much time all the time, I would probably watch "The Cosby Show" a lot more, but I might...
For those interested in current events, the New York Times has a 40-page weekly digest of stories published in its regular daily paper. Similarly, Reader's Digest has a monthly large-size edition. "Circulation is going up," says Lesta Cordil, director of public relations for Reader's Digest. "It...
Marvels have been created out of a sense of inferiority, as the history of American museums proves. But from the 1880s to the late 1950s, American museums--the Whitney itself being the lone exception--were less interested in fostering American artists than in acquiring, at warp speed, the cultural treasures...
Some American artists and photographers were critical of Promethean technology. The image of the impersonal, overwhelming machine, successor to Blake's "satanic mills," flourished after the Wall Street Crash of 1929. Others saw salvation in it. But certainly no culture responded so passionately to it as America's; and in...
On its own, the crime would have been horrible enough. But coming just eight days after the Littleton massacre, it was the centerpiece of a fevered week of copycat incidents at schools across the continent. Authorities rounded up scores of kids for allegedly plotting to blow up their schools, sneaking...