Word: modern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...frenetic pulse of this album comes from the variety of traditional music styles that Byrne combines with modern lyrics and instrumentation. Of the 15 pieces on the album, only two merengues repeat themselves rhythmically. The rest range from the intense pace of "Loco de Amor's" salsa/reggae to the seductive tension of the bolero, highlighted in "Women...
...professorship will also increase the number of undergraduate courses being taught in modern Chinese Studies, MacFarquhar said. He said that he favors adding a provision to the chair's description that would require its occupant to teach "at least a bare minimum of courses...
...final sentence Cohn writes that "[t]he survival of the Jews in America and the modern world depends on the ability to live in a secular society that bears little resemblance to a kosher deli." The ability to live in a secular society is a requirement for the survival of any person. For Jews to survive, however, that is not the only requirement...
...survival of Jews in America and the modern world depends on the ability to live in a secular society that bears little resemblence to a kosher deli...
...belief in witchcraft has existed foran immeasurable time period, perhaps beginningwith ancient shamman's concept of "sympatheticmagic" and holding with modern day concepts ofoccultism and New Age religion. History is rifewith stories and reports of witch-hunts, initiatedand perpetuated by hysterical masses desperated todefeat the all-powerful supernatural. A centralissue to address, then, is the need for people tocontrol these supernatural forces of witchcraft.Did the people they targeted as witches haveunnatural control over their surroundings? In mostcases in colonial America, the accused witches didnot have excessive personal or social power.However, their victims, as well as the hystericalcommunity, perceived them...