Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Along similar lines, Assistant Professor of History Zachary Lockman, a specialist in modern Middle Eastern history, said that the Palestinian Liberation Front "wants to undermine Yassir Arafat by attacking Italy, a country with which the Arafat faction has had good relations...
...shadow of these events that the first modern elite leadership class came of age. With the decline of a sacred world view and the political and cultural ascendance of corporate liberalism we note the erosion of an integrated normative world view. Thus "the growing mass of stupidity and indifference" at Harvard becomes more comprehensible. For the time being, however, let us pray and then begin the debate
...selections, the museum admirably represents almost all major phases of a protean career. Yet there are a few gaps. Picasso was a Spaniard, and the Picasso Museum in Barcelona has most of his very early works. Madrid has the Guernica, which found refuge in the Museum of Modern Art during Francisco Franco's 40 years in power; London has the Three Dancers; and MOMA still has Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Paris' new museum has several fascinating studies, however, for Les Demoiselles, the painting that initiated cubism, and in years to come there will be loans between the Picasso Museum...
Theater began with one actor in a mask playing all the parts, relying on his imagination and the audience's. The modern one-person show blends that ancient Greek bravado with the calculated emotional exposure of the stand-up comic. The soloist, unmasked, tells the audience what is about to take place, shaping its reactions, soliciting its affection and implying that the customers are helping create the event rather than passively watching it. In this atmosphere, when the audience applauds some line of dialogue, it is hailing its own perspicacity as well as the actor's. The weakness of Lily...
...challenges Schumpeter's argument that change is the essence of modern economic life. Horsepower gave way to steam power, and vacuum tubes were replaced by transistors. Industries decline, while others grow. No nation today can isolate itself from those changes if it hopes to remain economically competitive. The Maginot Line did not protect France in 1940, and no economic Maginot Line will protect the U.S., now or in the future...