Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Modern technology and America's emergence as a major world power since the 1930s has converted Commencement into an international media event, making it appropriate for statements of global import...
...weren't for modern printing technology, all those people would join Bok in having tired wrists, officials say. All, that is, except...
...example, Cohen argues that there is a parallel between the forms of political and scientific revolutions; he notes that Newton's Principia was published only a year before the first modern revolution, England's 1688 Glorious Revolution. This concept would make an intriguing book, but Cohen's incomplete discussion of it becomes frustrating...
Pushing campus borders well beyond the gates of Harvard Yard, Pusey and his Architects Collaborative abandoned the traditional Georgian Revival style--so closely associated with red-brick Harvard--and opted for more modern. Internationally flavored architecture Harvard also began to commission nationally, acclaimed architects to design the University's very first skyscrapers...
DIED. John Martin, 91, dean of U.S. dance critics and tireless champion of the modern dance movement; in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. For 35 years at the New York Times, he was American dance's best friend and one of its harshest critics, presciently molding both an audience and a direction for pioneers of choreography like Martha Graham. Martin looked beyond the longestablished patterns of steps and positions, preaching that the elements of dance were an end in themselves. "The modern dance is not a system," he famously proclaimed, "it is a point of view...