Word: metropolitanism
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...trains are in the train stations. It is put on in the yards. And the way you prevent the graffiti and the vandalizing of those subway cars is to protect them when they are in the yards. I said to Dick Ravitch [chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority], I said to Dick, 'Look. Why don't you build a fence around the yards at night and put a dog in there to protect those cars? And that will stop the vandals.' And he said, 'No.' And I said, 'Why?' He said. The dogs might step on the third rail...
Though immersed in the metropolitan culture of France, Pissarro lived at an angle to it. He was not only an immigrant -he had been born and raised on the Caribbean island of St. Thomas, the son of a well-off storekeeper-he was also a Jew. In this sense he was twice a stranger in France, and his clan loyalty, his commitment to the tiny republic of the family, his extreme probity and political radicalism were connected, one may surmise, to his sense of outsidership. More than anything else, he loved painting...
Norman Lear TV sitcoms have made metropolitan racial melanges like this into laugh material for a more sophisticated and cynical generation. But growing up in the real situation, in a New York neighborhood where racial barriers were as inflexible as foreign borders, the laughs did not come easy. "I felt like I was being punished, cut off," Jeffreys remembers. "It made me lonely." And scared of the sound of his stepfather's foot on the stair...
...Harvard, there was a difference between the students of this Class and those of previous Harvard generations. Some had goals more specifically-defined than those of others, but only a few could say with certainty that they intended to become eminent research scientists, or an editor of a major metropolitan newspaper, but most had the idea that Harvard would be the place for accomplishment and challenge...
...exhibition "German Masters of the Nineteenth Century," now on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, is about 35 years late in coming to Manhattan; but in this case, better late than never. No such comprehensive view of German art has ever been set before an American public; from the romantic visions and esoteric metaphors of painters like Philipp Otto Runge and Caspar David Friedrich in the first decades of the 19th century, to the robust dash and splash of Lovis Corinth at its end, there are 150 works by 30 artists, and they help fill...