Word: modern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There will also be musical performances ranging from traditional to classic to modern. Andrew J. Joseph '89 will play a traditional Korean instrument and Sharon E. Chen '88 will play violin. Three freshmen will also perform in what organizers say will be an innovative trio...
...idea of underground siting of nuclear reactors is not new. The principal argument against it is the cost factor. But I'm convinced that the cost will be acceptable if modern excavating equipment is used. And, really, no expense should be spared to prevent accidents involving radiation. I believe that people concerned about the potential harmful consequences of the peaceful use of nuclear energy should concentrate their efforts not on attempts to ban nuclear power, but instead on demands to assure its complete safety...
...Post-modern Primer...
...course, even if Mom tries her hardest to raise the perfect post-modern child, it won't work. It can't work, by definition. You can't want your kid to be post-modern--that would be a goal, and no telos is allowed. Besides, even if Junior progresses just as we've described, it will be a linear progression, and post-modernism has already foretold the end of linear thought. But every ending is also a beginning...
Even so, in the later 1950s and early '60s, Klein won a following among younger photographers, and his books devoted to Rome, Tokyo and Moscow all were published in the U.S. The vastly popular "Family of Man" photo show at New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1955 had set the authorized tone for treating global humanity, a tone that to some photographers seemed cloying and official. In the anxieties and feral pleasures that link the Tokyo doorman to the Roman on his Vespa, Klein found his own underpinnings of human affairs. He offered intimacy without violins, civic life...