Word: laxness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jung discussed the loopholes and lax enforcement of anti-discrimination laws and the changing nature of family life as reasons why ERA is necessary. The supportive audience also assisted Jung, calling out answers to a question about how the ERA would benefit...
...painting could express. Impressionism had been the art of the bourgeois paradise, naturalism unmodulated by idea. It had no content beyond the "view" ("Monet is only an eye," Cezanne said, "but good God, what an eye!"), no governing system of imagery, no symbols. To younger artists, it therefore seemed lax and unambitious. They wanted to return painting to a more demanding kind of diction ?exemplary and grand, like the art of the museums. All manner of stylistic sources fed into their project: the abstracted allegories of Puvis de Chavannes, for instance, gave some cues to Gauguin...
...East Cambridge, angry students and parents crowded into the hot upper room of the East End community center to shout at Lannon and school committee member Glenn Koocher about lax security and racial tension at the school...