Word: modernism
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...These are Humes' "eco-barons" - the modern-day counterpart to the 19th century robber barons who helped set the U.S. on its resource-gobbling path - and they're using their vast wealth and will to help protect the earth's quickly vanishing wilderness. The eco-barons' mission, Humes says, became all the more important when Washington shrank from its role as environmental guardian. "In an era in which government has been either broke, indifferent or actively hostile to environmental causes," writes Humes, "a band of visionaries ... are using their wealth, their energy, their celebrity and their knowledge...
Agnes Varda is a French film director, and she and her films are gracing the Harvard Film Archive until the 16th. A different film every night, ranging from Paris in the 1960s in "Cleo de 5 a 7" and "Lions Love" to look at the periphery of modern French life in the documentary "The Gleaners." (See website for showtimes; free for Harvard students...
...when the panelists began discussing modern women’s movements, Ginsburg acknowledged that progress now requires more than just legal action...
...second point is that a lasered-in President is an antidote to the flightiness and indiscipline endemic to both Washington and Wall Street. Fixing one problem at a time may strike Obama as mere gum-chewing. But in modern-day Washington, one is a very high number. The reason so many people were left slack-jawed by the Obama budget was not that they disagreed with his premise that health-care costs are out of control or that energy independence is desirable or that better schools are important to the future of the economy. It was the real-world knowledge...
...presentation of the modern within the classical confines of ukiyo-e prints is oddly unsettling, as if the artist could not quite come to terms with the new world, and perhaps didn't want to. In one print, for example, a woman in traditional kimono and lacquered hair watches wistfully as a young girl, hair flying behind her, joyfully rides a bicycle...