Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bowie later gave me two contradictory criteria to evaluate the Center. Either, he said, they chose what they do to serve imperialism, or they do it to understand "the forces at work in the modern world, to see whether we can understand the process of development...
...point is that modern philosophy, maybe since Marx has taught us the necessary correlation between theory and practice. You don't really believe something unless you are acting for it. We want to abolish the Center, for example, but we don't know how. And so we have an irreconcilable tension in our existence all the way from breakfast to bedtime...
...puzzling because the other groups that populate the upper reaches of today's pop hierarchy are so incredibly good in their own special professional ways that it is difficult to see how a bunch of amateurs like the Beatles invariably manage to surpass them all. Thus in the modern rock and roll scene there are, to name only a few, groups like the Who. with their titanic instrumental drive; or groups of the structural and textural subtlety of Traffic and Procul Harum: or maverick musical virtuosos like Laura Nyro and Jimi Hendrix-or, of course. the Rolling Stones, absolute masters...
Social Sciences 134, taught by John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economies, has leapt from seventh place last year to second, with 350 students. this Fall Galbraith's course on "The Modern Industrial Society" has bumped Economics 1 to third place from a position in the top two which it held for the previous five years...
Sontag's brilliant book contains essays on Bergman and Godard, the pornographic imagination, the relation of theatre and film, the state of the nation, and E. M. Cioran, a modern aphoristic French philosopher. Two of the essays, the avant-garde "Aesthetics of Silence" and "Trip to Hanoi," rank among the most important intellectual documents of the sixties...