Word: modern
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...PREMISE: Teenaged Tillie lives at home, where her dysfunctional sister, mother and "Nanny" drive her to escape into a scientific world of gamma rays and cloud chambers. The play has five leading female roles and gives us a candid and amusing picture of how a young girl survives this modern world of borderline insanity and paranoia...
...also co-taught Historical Study A-12, "International Conflicts and Cooperation in the Modern World" with Kaneb Professor of National Security and Military Stephen P. Rosen...
Many of Stuntz's colleagues said they share high esteem for Stuntz and his investigations into modern criminal...
Stuntz has spoken often at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Va., and has also lectured on the relationship between Christianity and legal theory. He said he hopes to write further on overcriminalization in modern America, as well as legal regulation of the police...
...from dead. Disenchanted with modern society, many rural Chinese are reverting to traditional beliefs. Ancestor halls and temples have sprung up around the countryside. "Life in the villages again revolves around the temple, where people go to ask for things," says Fava. If Beijing cannot come up with responses to their questions, the gods will win out. For Mei Ying, the answers come from Mazu...