Word: modern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with the opening of "Vienna 1900: Art, Architecture and Design," a dense display of objects at New York City's Museum of Modern Art, the revised revisionism is official: the arts and crafts of early 20th century Vienna may have been idiosyncratic and lush, but they are products of the modern sensibility. MOMA's entire ground floor has been given over to the exhibit, which consists of 700 works produced between 1898 and 1918. The show, which derives from more expansive exhibits seen in Vienna and Paris over the past two years, will be on view until...
...final days of Rome, the historian Ammianus Marcellinus noted, "The modern nobles measure their rank and consequence according to the loftiness of their chariots." If old Marcellinus were around today he might be fretting about the future of the U.S., because we are about to put the President in the loftiest chariot that man has yet devised...
...thoroughly modern Sarah Ferguson, fiancee of Britain's Prince Andrew, may not be so modern after all. The princess-to-be has chosen a traditional 1662 marriage rite for her wedding on July 23. While Sarah's close friend Diana, Princess of Wales, promised in 1981 to "love, honor and keep" (but not obey) her husband Prince Charles, Sarah will swear to "obey" not once but twice during the service...
...graduated summa cum laude in the spring and won a Rhodes Scholarship. She will attend Oxford in the fall and study modern literature...
...modern Vatican is, of course, a somewhat less colorful place, but it remains a center of controversy. Pius XII (1939-58) "saw himself as the Pope of peace," as Kelly puts it, but his efforts to remain "strictly neutral" during World War II led to sharp criticisms of his failure to speak out strongly against the Nazis. Despite the claims of Pius' defenders that he did speak out, Kelly concludes, "What remains clear is that the veiled or generalized language traditional to the curia was not a suitable instrument for dealing with cynically planned world domination and genocide...