Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Three cheers for your excellent Essay on art today [Jan. 27]. I recently completed a course in modern art in hopes that I might gain some appreciation for the currently hailed art trends. However, I was completely disillusioned with the hodgepodge of junk that supposedly caters to the American taste. I can find beauty in the colors of Pollock, design in the geometric abstraction of Malevitch, and esthetic reasons for the distortions of Picasso; however, I can find no purpose in pop art or minimal art. Previously, I thought that I just wasn't with it; now I know...
...which we send to business executives, government officials, educators, labor leaders. This week we are distributing Scott's latest study, done after visits to Asia, South America and Europe. Its title: "Hunger-Must We Starve?" Scott's answer: Not necessarily, provided that man makes the most of modern methods of population control and improves food production. His next subject: Viet...
...appreciated what Webster was saying. Historians of the day ignored modern China. Chiang Kai-shek was organizing a huge, bloody trap to "exterminate" thousands of Communists, but the first American journalists wouldn't arrive on the scene for another few years. Sometime between that luncheon and his arrival at Oxford months later as a Rhodes Scholar, Fairbank decided that Chinese history might be an interesting thing to try. He borrowed a book from the ex-missionary who taught Chinese at Oxford, sat down and began to memorize the characters. Thirty-eight years after that luncheon the ranking State Department East...
Schapiro received all of his education at Columbia University, where he has taught for 40 years. In 1932, he offered the first course anywhere on the history of modern art. He was one of the founders of the Journal of the History of Ideas, and the man most responsible for bringing the abstract art of the 50's to the attention of the public...
...authority over its staff or the school of government. Both Harvard officials and Kennedy friends insist that the institute's nonpartisan goal is to fill a significant gap in the academic world. In essence, it has been designed as a temporary center of intellectual refreshment for the modern breed of academic activist whose real love is to make and execute federal policy-yet who also cannot live too long without some contact with the world of ideas...