Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sequence will include courses on Near Eastern and Far Eastern art and architecture, ancient and medieval architecture, and Renaissance and modern architecture, said Department Chairman Neil Levine...
Similarly, the present-day attitude toward disease has been tempered by modern medicine. Many of the ogres of the past, including small pox, polio, and tuberculosis, have been tamed or eliminated. With the advent of microsurgery, even chainsaws and lawnmowers have lost their element of danger. Death has been driven back to the frontier of old age, and so become distant and less real...
...person in class it's not as valuable in that you don't have as much give and take--there is much more discussion when you have three of four," says Aga Khan Professor of Iranian Richard N. Frye, who teaches Iranian 177, "State and Religion in Pre-Modern Iran." Fuller agrees, "The dynamics really change substantially from when you have four students to when you have three students. It affects your ability to play them off against each other in terms of getting them to see other points of view...
...year an intensive debate about secularization has raged within the ranks of Roman Catholicism. Liberals say the church should plunge more deeply into social problems; conservatives contend such involvement has already gone too far. Late last week Pope John Paul, summing up an extraordinary synod of bishops in a modern Vatican meeting hall, called for a careful balance of both views. The church is the "mystical body of Christ," he said, thus emphasizing its spiritual quality, but it is simultaneously "at the service of the world...
...loss, something terrible and sad. The financial failure of her farm and the death of Finch Hatton at about the same time drove her back to Europe. But like the "civilizing" of Africa, personal setbacks symbolized to her a much larger loss, that of romantic idealism in the modern world. Her consolation was that in this defeat, some men like Finch Hatton, some women like herself, were given a last opportunity to display a noble quality she also fancied was fast disappearing: gallantry in the face of crushing odds...