Word: modern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Steinsaltz's audacity was such that at age 27 he decided to create a modern Talmud. "It was a kind of hubris," he admits. Standard editions are virtually unreadable for nonexperts partly because the Hebrew is printed without vowel notations or punctuation. And the work abounds with obscurities. Two commentaries are customarily printed alongside the text to assist understanding, but they raise further questions because they are centuries...
Cutone may have been the very model of a modern defensive defenseman but everyone, even a goalie, likes to score sometime. In fact, as Cutone struggled to put his name in the scoring box, super shot Dickie McEvoy--Harvard's netminder--added a pair of assists to his bank account. One more and he would have gotten free checking...
Although salvador Dali wrote a cook book, the Chinese painter Ta Chien is the only modern artist to make it to the common menu, with the Szechwan specialty Ta Chien chicken. Through menu notes I have learned over the years that Ta Chien is "the Chinese Picasso," living in South America, given to bright colors (hence the Gaugin green peppers of the dish), and a native of the Szechwan province. I do not think that I have ever seen a picture of Ta Chien, or understood the relationship between the painter and the entree...
GEORGE BUSH HAS set for himself a difficult task: convincing the nation that he is at once the most engaged vice president in modern times and innocent of knowledge in the Iran-contra affair. We have long found his claim difficult to believe. Last week our doubts increased...
...modern state, we must know not only which kind of state our leaders would prefer, but also what kind of people they are. Brodsky believes that a political leader's relationship to literature reveals his respect for the autonomy of individuals, and his understanding of the integrity of the human soul. Would it be too much to say that Brodsky could hope for no better confirmation of his point than that Ronald Reagan most enjoys the fiction of Louis L'amour, while Paul Simon prefers Richard Wright...