Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Coop, that huge emporium where eager students throng each semester to stock up on textbooks and toothpaste, has purchased retail space in Kendall Square for the construction of "a modern, enlarged store that will enable us to provide better service to our members," said Argeros...
...prefer your trips overseas, two summer school classes may be your ticket abroad. Econ S-1258, "Economic Growth in Modern China: Quantitative Aspects," will take a close look at development in the People's Republic of China. Under the tutelage of Harvard Visiting Professor of Economics Subramanian Swamy, the course will cover income distribution, quality of life and regional disparities...
...students can choose from among 250 courses, ranging from "Econmetric Modeling and Business Forecasting" to "The Evolution of Modern jazz Through Jazz Rock and Fusion." In addition, the Summer School offers a special six-week dance program, an eight-week Ukranian culture institute and the Health Professions Program, a program for minority and disadvantaged students...
...serious painting or dance or poetry, the appreciation of popular culture requires no tutelage or special sensibility, not even close attention. Florenz Ziegfeld and George Lucas create art that is one-size-fits-all. Except perhaps for Roman Catholicism, no other Western cultural genus has been as inclusive as modern pop, so truly classless. Indeed, says Fiedler, Nikes and Garfield T shirts are class camouflage. "One of the functions of pop culture," Fiedler says, "is to make it impossible to spot where a person belongs on the social hierarchy by what he's wearing, what he's drinking, what...
...past 20 years, its messages are starker. An artifact of American pop is more vivid and more freighted with meaning in Tunis or Bogota than in Berlin or Ottawa. The explanation for pop's seductiveness seems less complicated in Senegal or Bangladesh: America is equated with prosperity and modernism, and pop connotes America. A Tina Turner song playing on the transistor can mitigate (even as it fosters) a Third Worlder's sense of backwater isolation. Charles Kasinga, the executive at McCann Erickson (Kenya) Ltd. in charge of the Coke account, practices applied semiotics. "There is a perceived way of life...