Word: landmarked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Like Bernstein, Robbins--who died last week at 79, after a stroke--was a crossover artist long before the term was coined. In the '50s and '60s, he spent much of his time working on Broadway, staging such landmark productions as Gypsy and Fiddler on the Roof; he made Mary Martin fly in Peter Pan and taught the Jets and the Sharks how to rumble in West Side Story, the urban updating of Romeo and Juliet that was his (and Bernstein's) most enduring contribution to the American musical. But classical dance was his true love...
DIED. LEROY EDGAR BURNEY, 91, Surgeon General from 1956 to 1961 and the first in that office to implicate smoking as a cause of lung cancer; in Arlington Heights, Ill. Burney's pronouncements helped set the stage for the Surgeon General's landmark antismoking report...
...says A. Leon Higginbotham Jr., a retired federal judge (who is more qualified for the high court than Thomas). Thomas has voted against minority set-aside programs in federal contracting, against creating majority-black congressional districts and even questioned the logic of Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 landmark ruling that struck down segregated schools. It's the substance of those judicial opinions that offends Thomas' critics--not his complexion...
...Supreme Court's landmark rulings in two recent sexual-harassment suits dramatically demonstrate that feminism continues to play a critical role in ensuring fairness in the workplace. Because the vast majority of us who call ourselves feminists (as well as many strong and effective women who do not) keep pushing for issues such as equal pay, affordable and quality child care and an end to domestic violence and sexual assault, women and men and society at large benefit. Phony battles over labels are not what is important: substance is. The current favorites whom the media dub "feminists" are enjoying...
...wretched of the earth, Frantz Fanon's landmark work of revolutionary theory, the famed psychiatrist and social critic states that "the colonized man who writes for his people ought to use the past with the intention of opening the future, as an invitation to action and a basis for hope." Fanon, who published his treatise in 1961, intended his words to apply to Third World artists struggling to shatter the psychological and metaphysical shackles of European domination. How could he have predicted that, 37 years later, his writings would succinctly summarize the raison d'etre of a new musical movement...