Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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April's Boston magazine just disobeyed one of the cardinal rules of modern race relations...
...Stalin? Mao Zedong or Deng Xiaoping? The answers were closely reasoned and thoroughly researched. The editors also solicited the opinions of readers, who let us know what they thought by letter, E-mail and fax. Our Website time.com alone collected nearly 7 million votes. (Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, drew several million.) In the end the editors balanced popularity with legacy and influence with impact to produce a collection that both engages and surprises. And if there is someone you thought for sure should be included, stay tuned--he or she may appear in one of our later...
...remember how we got to this point in 'Michael Collins', Neil Jordan's earnest (though not always historically accurate) tale of the brilliant military mind with a 'talent for mayhem' (Liam Neeson) who virtually invented modern urban guerilla warfare and liberated at least the southern portion of the Emerald Isle from British rule. Don't worry about the history part--the fudges are minor, and it's great fun to watch as Neeson fights the British for Ireland and Aidan Quinn for the love of Julia Roberts...
...like life itself, this consistency is broken--and often. In the Square, we find the interruption that is modern Holyoke Center, as well as the glass front of what is now BankBoston. The Signet is of clapboard, University Hall of stone, and Widener's steps of granite. Grass defines the Yard and the Quad, and moss creeps through the cracks of the sidewalk. Asphalt covers all the streets, and white-washed something-or-other coats William James. But throughout, there is a sense of brick. It is Harvard's theme, perhaps lifted from Oxford or Cambridge, and made into further...
...living. Pilgrims travel with few possessions, spending nights in tents and under the open sky. Meals are simple, and the clothing basic. The immense simplicity with which the Hajj is conducted teaches us that we can do without the finer things in life. The complexity and ornamentation of modern urban society are not essential to our existence. Observing the Hajj brings us back to the basics and points out that all the "extras" we strive for are not necessarily the most important things in life. Particularly in the world we live in and in places like our university...