Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bard of the Beat Generation can still grind startling, creative, and provocative images from the grist mill of his modern America. A four-line poem entitled "Suprise Mind" reads...
Today, Cooperson speaks five languages fluently, including French, Modern Greek, Arabic and Hebrew, and he has some knowledge of Spanish and German. An honors concentrator in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Cooperson has taken a literature class in Greek, a philosophy class in Hebrew, and is currently studying classical Arabic...
Preceptor in Modern Greek Diana Haas describes Cooperson as an outstanding student with "an incredible capacity for learning a lot very fast. I have the highest regard for him as a student and a person," she says...
...museum's fewer than fifty inhabitants were isolated from the daily bustle of Beijing. They were not allowed outside after 9 p.m. "In the evenings they locked the gates, like in ancient times. Life there had nothing to do with modern China at all," says the art historian and amateur artist...
According to Wu Hung, Chinese art now is in a transitional stage. He says he feels it's important to encourage young artists, and he has arranged a series of displays of modern Chinese paintings in the Adams House common room in order to stimulate interest in the Asian art scene...