Word: mapped
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...writer was Pablo Picasso. If his sentiment seems odd (for someone who was to spend most of his life in France), we must blame the predominantly Francophile readings of art history for that. The real map of modernist culture in early 20th century Europe was not that of a capital surrounded by aesthetic provinces. It was more like a confederation: a scatter of nodes and local centers, engaged with one another and enjoying a persistent osmosis of ideas across the frontiers-Moscow, Berlin, Stockholm, Munich. Weimar, Barcelona, Vienna. Paris was uniquely hospitable to the avantgarde. But it had no monopoly...
...courses loosely assembled under the broad rubrics of Humanitites, Social Sciences and Natural Sciences. In the words of Francis Pipkin, professor of Physics and a former associate dean for undergraduate education: "The General Education committee feels that it is drifting aimlessly in a strange sea with neither a map nor a compass to guide...
...stay tuned, folks. With one bold stroke, Denver is bidding to put itself on the performing-arts map. When the multimillion-dollar Denver Center for the Performing Arts is complete, it will include the 2,700-seat concert hall just finished, a building containing three theaters and a cinema, and a huge parking garage, all of them adjacent to the existing auditorium and sports arena...
...worked persistently for a cease-fire with the Soviet Union. He began by calling for a cease-fire providing for a return by the belligerents to the lines of Oct. 6 (see map); but then he changed his cease-fire terms to save Israel after the famous plea and the Pentagon reports to demand a cease-fire on the existing lines of Oct. 13. We actually turned down both requests. When, however, the Soviet Union informed him that Egypt would agree to a cease-fire on the existing lines of Oct. 13, Kissinger was very pleased and contacted...
...Oxford's largest offspring, the exhibit is opening this week at New York's Pierpont Morgan Library, across from Oxford's American headquarters. There, from March 8 through May 7, visitors can gaze at Rood's Expositio, the first Oxford Bible (dated 1675) and A Map of Virginia, With a Description of the Countrey, the Commodities, People, Government and Religion, written by Captain John Smith of Jamestown fame and published...