Word: modern
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Daniel Oran recently made his case against the current law suit pending in Santa Barbara (November 27), recalling the classical notions of free will, necessity, and choice. He then stretched his argument to include the modern behaviorism of B.F. Skinner, concluding that inherent in the plaintiff's argument exists a contradiction. By that be surmised that tobacco companies should not be held responsible for their product's effects, if they were in fact knowledgeable of the cigarette's effects long before the Surgeon General...
MARCIA GREEN, HEATHER JOHNSTON and INGER TUDOR (from left to right) perform in For Colored Girls..., a compelling and touching adaptation of Shange's intimate story of Black women surviving in the modern day. The drama-musical is the first production this year by Black C.A.S.T. and is a stong step forward for Bradford, who has shown great ability and creativity in all of his productions either at the Leverett House Old Library or the Loeb Mainstage. As with most musical productions at Harvard there are some weak voices and weak coreography, but the play comes out ahead...
...Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: modern works, Harcus Gallery, 7 Newbury St, Dec. 7 through...
This movie is so busy rushing about spending money and amazing us that it has no time for emotion. Nicholas Rowe's Holmes has only seconds to weep for his dead mentor and love interest before tripping off to participate in some or other breathtaking spectacle of modern cinema...
...would be wrong, though, to attribute our longing to escape to modern ills alone. In the late sixteenth century, Montaigne wrote: "The evil means men use in our day to push themselves show clearly that the end is not worth much. Let us reply to ambition that it is she herself that gives us a taste for solitude. For what does she shun so much as society? What does she seek so much as elbowroom...