Word: modern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PROBLEM with trying to put an event like Binari's Incantation to Spring into context is its homelessness. Those who attend tomorrow night's performance should keep in mind the irony that they are catching a rare glimpse of the Korean people's modern history that Koreans themselves, living under the ongoing threat of political repression, will most likely never have a chance...
...accident that members of the New York-based semi-professional dance troupe chose April 19 for their Boston debut. The date marks the anniversary of an infamous student-led revolt in South Korea in 1960 that occasioned its modern rebirth as a "democratic" nation. The controversial significance of the event is heightened by the present situation of political instability in Seoul, where the daily-increasing volume of student agitation for constitutional reforms keeps reintroducing the spectre of recent events in the Phillipines...
Still, the subversion can be entertaining as well. A scene depicting the struggle of various class elements comprising Korean society on the eve of its modern transformation is presented in the guise of a children's puppet-play...
...RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE" usually implies an epiphany of sorts, an experience profound and electric. At least so it was in the pastoral world before the Church and Billy Graham fused with MTV, but a modern, urban brush with religion--or rather, its proselytes--can be a queasy, exploitive experience. Twice this semester I've been spiritually solicited, and the encounters have left me feeling cynical and defensive...
...ordinary bourgeois could cheerfully unite: true love is the conjunction of concupiscence with affection." This seems a rather obvious thesis to attract all the firepower that Gay devotes to it. And though it is doubtless true that Victorians in love behaved much like anyone else--lacking only the modern penchant for boasting--Gay also shows us that the Victorians and their Continental or American contemporaries were oddly different. Their new influence disturbed and bewildered them, and they often diagnosed themselves as "nervous...