Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that is as it should be. Any modern assessment of Moses' story needs to expose him to historical detective work, scientific speculation and literary intuition. But it must also acknowledge him as an irresistible personality, a man both weak and strong, a savior rejected, a brother reproved, a prophet both happily and unhappily caught up in the whirlwind of God. The modern search for Moses is like a climb up Mount Sinai. It is a bracing ascent over starkly arid terrain, the ancient volcanic rock giving way to deep chasms, full of darkness and danger. But the view...
...Freed of the ambition for higher office, Udall became a particularly effective chairman of the House Interior Committee, a position he held from 1976 until he left Congress. In a real sense, he is also responsible for much of the face of modern Arizona. He shepherded through Congress the massive Central Arizona Project, a series of aqueducts from the Colorado River that provided the water that grew Tucson and Phoenix into the megalopolises they are today...
Herrmann was the first magician to be portrayed in a modern style--as a skilled practitioner of magical illusions--and not as a Merlin style mystic, Wilson said...
...baby-face and five-foot-one stature yet blessed with keen insight and a genuine zest for life, a man who "loved life's details, relished even its absurdities, delighted in the oddity of human and animal culture, but simultaneously dreaded living." O'Donnell skillfully captures the post-modern existential plight: how to find yourself amidst confusion and chaos, how to live life in a way that is worth living. He writes with an original, sharp wit, turning no end of cleverly constructed phrases. He puts his finger precisely on the pulse of the genre of quirky observation that made...
...rights. Much of the book, in fact, discusses the struggle to obtain equal rights for gays. Sullivan personally makes an impassioned argument for the recognition of gay marriage. He also presents a comprehensive survey of different theories on the genesis of homosexuality that, in spanning Freud to modern psychologists, address the nature versus nurture debate head...