Word: modern
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...these and many other ways, Sharfstein's article represents an incomplete, irresponsible, and morally complacent attack which fails to appreciate the complexities and significance of the goals of the "animal rights movement," and hence serves to perpetuate the dangerous attitudes behind the acceptance of the exploitation of animals in modern society. James M. Grossman...
...redirect his no-saying from financial aid to drugs), was a call for a greater "moral discipline" or a return to the past. Of course what we really need is more attention to the moral questions--not just the old answers--along with the rigorously trained minds and modern educations capable and desirous of reflecting on them. But usually, we've been thinking about something else...
These are assuredly old and durable subjects, yet ones that Wilson probes with a comic irony sharpened on the modern world. Inevitably, his work has been compared to the novels of Evelyn Waugh. There are similarities but only "up to a point," as a subordinate in Waugh's Scoop responded when Lord Copper blustered that Yokohama is the capital of Japan. Wilson's comedy is more tolerant than that of the malicious master. Both authors, however, project intimidating confidence in their styles and possess a technical virtuosity that makes the difficult look easy...
...MODERN JAZZ QUARTET: FOR ELLINGTON (East-West). Part hommage, part reinvention, this is a ravishing tribute by one of the premier jazz groups to one of America's greatest composers. The M.J.Q. pays the Duke the ultimate honor: they don't just respect him, they make him swing...
PAINTING IN RENAISSANCE SIENA, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The ^ gentle, graceful 15th century fragments and miniatures in this scrupulous show offer respite from the brutish reality of modern life. Through March...