Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...self-education was wide but shallow. Vienna was peopled with brilliant artists and thinkers; Sigmund Freud's researches, Arnold Schoenberg's music, Oskar Kokoschka's paintings, Arthur Schnitzler's plays, all had their roots in the city. But Hitler dismissed modern art as "decadent." To the impotent and solitary figure, power was what mattered, not aesthetics. The Ring of the Nibelung proved more fascinating for the drama than for the music. "Whoever wants to understand National Socialist Germany," Hitler often said, "must know Wagner." Particularly the heroic, irrational world of blood and fire...
GOODMAN'S book is primarily about the problems of maintaining conservative Jewish values in unlikely settings--Hawaii and Oxford, England. Total Immersion is about identity and the problems of balancing different cultures and reconciling tradition with modern problems...
...framework of Friedman's analysis of the Middle East is Assad's destruction of Hama, which the author feels characterize the three conflicting elements that have caused conflict in the Middle East: tribe-like loyalty, authoritarianism and modern nation-state building...
...while Changing Places and Small "campus" novels, that description only half fits Nice Work. This novel concerns itself as much with the world of industry as with acadamia, as Lodge sets up a modern parallel to the world of 19th century industrial novels...
...Nice Work covers new ground, particularly in its analysis of Thatcherite Britain in relation to the Victorian industrial era. It is just as consciously literary as either of the first two, but it has a firmer grounding in the contemporary social and economic problems of modern-day Britain...