Word: modern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard treats its rich alumni well. They get invited to fancy dinners. They get a greater voice in making policy. In short they get more attention. Unfortunately such stroking is needed to keep a modern university running. But Harvard can get by without $50,000 from its most recent graduates. Instead of breeding young fundraising zealots, whose hearts will pound 25 years from now at the sight of green grass, perhaps the University should try to instill some unity among all the diversity...
...through French impressionists to Maxfield Parrish and Norman Rockwell (represented by a portrait of Jacqueline Kennedy). A pair of 7 1/2-ft. portraits of Britain's George III and his consort Queen Charlotte went for $40,700. Still higher prices were expected this week in the sale of Warhol's modern and contemporary art acquisitions, although aside from several Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtensteins, Robert Rauschenbergs and the like, experts found this part of his collection far less impressive than might have been expected from the Prince...
...other modern critic has written asforcefuly about reception theory in Romanceliterature," Rigolot said...
...Modern historians are disdaining political history in favor of social, economic and ethnic history, and are wrongly overspecializing in their fields, historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38 said in a speech last night at Harvard Law School...
...also criticized modern historians for specializing too much, saying that although "scholars nowadays confine themselves to narrow fields," his father had "rejected the theory of intensive specialization." He recalled that his father had "wandered in a variety of fields" rather than "ploughing one," and had written about such diverse topics as 18th century colonial America, 19th century urban America, modern women's history, manners, dieting and even horoscopes...