Word: modern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Plot, however, is not her strong suit, given that alientation has been the key theme in every major modern work since existentialism. What Wittman does and says is not original. Even his dream--of writing an epic play that would weave together Chinese novels and tales about the famed monkey who brings back Buddhist scripts from India--is based on others' thoughts. And nothing really happens in the book; the drama is practically irrelevant...
Patrick and Jenny Standish have just moved into a modern apartment complex south of the Thames in London (faithful Amis readers will recall the courtship of these two as recorded 29 years ago in Take a Girl Like You). Patrick has stopped being a Latin teacher and now works as an editor at a publishing house. After nearly eight years of marriage, he is proving no match for the temptations of swinging London in the '60s. His difficulties with girls involve an inability to resist them. A new neighbor, Tim Valentine, confesses to another sort of problem: an initial enthusiasm...
...famous Scopes Monkey Trial treats the subject of teaching evolution and creationism in schools. If you took Justice last semester, you saw a portion of the Scopes trial in class--if you were there. If not, you can see the whole thing this weekend at Lowell House in a modern rendition of a philosophical dispute thatt continues to this...
WHEN Professor Anna Chave announced that students should take advantage of Eastern Airlines $12 fares to visit New York's Museum of Modern Art, some students in "Modern Art and Abstraction" cried out in protest. When The Crimson continued to run Eastern Airlines advertisement throughout the machinists strike, some Crimson editors attempted to pull the ads. Why? Why does the act of flying Eastern Airlines anger so many students...
...history, from its discovery more than 4,000 years ago in what is now Soviet Georgia to its potential for future greatness in California and Australia, Johnson offers some provocative comparisons. For example, he describes the monastic orders, which preserved viticulture in the Dark Ages, as "forerunners of modern multinational corporations," with outposts (abbeys and priories) scattered throughout Europe...