Word: moderned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more than 20 years ago, ciritcs hotly debated the acceptance of abstract art. Meyer Schapiro recalls those days in his collection of essays in Modern Art--19th and 20th Centuries. Schapiro asks three questions in particular: one, why do modern artists no longer consider nature the ideal model of harmony? Two, what has replaced it? And three, what has been the result of this change in emphasis...
Kennedy's formal announcement will open a major new chapter in the alternately tragic and triumphant saga of the nation's most eminent modern political dynasty. Americans have gone through the bright hopes of Camelot and the dark night of two Kennedy assassinations. They were both titillated and dismayed by the spectacular dramas of Jackie's widowhood and remarriage and by Mary Jo Kopechne's death at Chappaquiddick...
...Political Correspondent John Stacks was interviewing State Comptroller Gerald Lewis about Kennedy. Reports Stacks: "Soon it was clear that he was not just talking about Ted Kennedy but about John Kennedy and Bob Kennedy and Camelot and the antiwar movement and God knows what other half-remembered moments of modern Democratic politics. Had he ever met Ted Kennedy? 'No, I haven't,' he answered, and it made no difference to him that this is a different Kennedy...
...pair of cross country skis stand in a corner. Behind him rests a picture of the first observed "charmed quark"--a species he originally identified--at which he smiles affectionately. This is the odd couple that has made brilliant, complementary contributions to what Glashow calls the "glorious tapestry of modern physics," contributions of such moment as to win the elusive plaudits of the Stockholm conclave...
Until then, the office will continue to offer the kind of intense programs it has been coordinating for the last six years. Claire Malardi directs the developed dance program. Affiliated with the Cambridge School of Ballet, the program includes instruction in ballet, modern and jazz dance as well as concerts and workshops in dance. Although Malardi believes no credit for dance courses forces students to make dance a second priority to graded course work, she praises the program for supplying intellectual and philosophical instruction as well as many students' outstanding dedication...