Word: modern
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hughes was an expert on modern European history, specializing in European intellectual history...
Wabash, remarkably, has preserved its gender--and has even made it a trendy selling point. Men's colleges once looked about as viable as castrato choirs. But Wabash, independent since it was founded in 1832, is giving its Georgian campus a $100 million face lift, with modern science and sports facilities, and has just enrolled one of its largest and smartest freshman classes in years. It's a tribute to the college's richly intimate teaching traditions: its fewer than 1,000 students, from all economic backgrounds, often learn as much over dinner and wine tastings at professors' houses...
...lately. Actually, it's unmarriage that seems to be capturing our attention. From American Beauty to the just released Bruce Willis-Michelle Pfeiffer movie, The Story of Us, the institution is being turned inside out, and it's not a pretty sight. To judge by these films, modern marriage involves a lot of broken china and busted expectations. While the current depictions of marriage may be overly pessimistic, each year half as many Americans get divorced as marry, and that's not a trifling statistic...
...help wondering why he did not mention the four most widely known examples of apologetically inspired fictionalization: the canonical Gospels. Krauthammer's examples of "brazen confabulators who make up their histories and the slavish academics who justify them" are simply following the examples of the ancient Evangelists and the modern Evangelicals. What goes around comes around. THOMAS W. HALL JR. Foster...
...fear. The recent confrontation between India and Pakistan involving nuclear weapons shows the continuing relevance of an event that happened over half a century ago. Furthermore, Earth offers frightening insight into the tragedy and violence that can be associated with partitioning, an issue applicable to many part of the modern world. With the phenomenal Fire and Earth under her belt, Mehta will doubtlessly meet the high expectations the film community has for Water, the anticipated final film in her trilogy...