Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although salvador Dali wrote a cook book, the Chinese painter Ta Chien is the only modern artist to make it to the common menu, with the Szechwan specialty Ta Chien chicken. Through menu notes I have learned over the years that Ta Chien is "the Chinese Picasso," living in South America, given to bright colors (hence the Gaugin green peppers of the dish), and a native of the Szechwan province. I do not think that I have ever seen a picture of Ta Chien, or understood the relationship between the painter and the entree...
...Zionist as I do not desire to live in a Jewish state. To me the United States is the modern promised land that allows minorities of all different stripes to flourish and contribute to the world in freedom. I often look at Israel as the ultimate final solution Europeans found to their inability to deal with anti-Semitism. Colonizing Jews on a strip of desert and cutting them off in a hostile region from the European world they helped create is not my idea of fair or wise. Nonetheless I am attracted by the idea of a strong and powerful...
...controlled area similiar to the District of Columbia squashed between the West Bank and Israel that border is likely to be more secure and peaceful. The last benefit is that Israel will then make its capital Tel Aviv, an action that will emphasize the nation's progressive modern attitudes rather than the illiberal theocratic forces which, in my mind, have had an extremely damaging effect on the nation--both in its relation with Arabs and with diaspora Jews...
...Berlioz is the founder of modern orchestration." (Music...
Braving the ire of traditionalists, Steinsaltz inserted vowel marks and punctuation. He also translated Aramaic sections into modern Hebrew and explained the numerous words from other languages that crop up. Even more boldly, he wrote his own commentary to appear with the two classical ones and provided a wealth of explanatory notes. Twelve typefaces had to be used to help readers sort out the various categories of material...