Word: modem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Anton Webern expanded the modem idiom by shrinking...
...Paul's encyclical Humanae Vitae (Of Human Life) totally rejected this theory. It declared all "artificial" methods of birth control unacceptable, thus touching off a sustained campaign of public dissent by theologians and wide disobedience among the laity, especially in the U.S., that has few parallels in modem Catholic history...
...basic goal of modem urban terrorists is to provoke a repressive response from governments, and thereby alienate the populace, or, if the government does nothing, to underscore its ineffectiveness. Repressive measures become tempting only as terrorism grows in frequency and scale through success. Thus experts argue that one way to control terrorism-eliminating it entirely would appear to be impossible-is for a government to declare a strong, stated policy of how it will respond to terrorism, and then, when it occurs, move swiftly, firmly and with the confidence of its people...
...Hirshhorn collection has always been controversial, partly because nobody except Abram Lerner, its director, and Hirshhorn has seen everything in it. Hirshhorn has been collecting longer than the Museum of Modem Art, and with hardly less money at his disposal. The tone has been one of impetuous enthusiasms and voracity, rather than the historically balanced connoisseurship a great museum needs. Thus Hirshhorn's enthusiasm for De Kooning has resulted in a superb group of early De Koonings, whereas some other key abstract expressionists, notably Pollock, are represented by weak or indifferent works. So although the works on view...