Word: modernize
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Strictly speaking, Palestinians are Arabs who live or have lived in the area now consisting of Israel, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, all of which was once called Palestine, after the Philistines who lived there (along with the Jews) in biblical times. The largest number of modern Palestinians still remain in that territory: 693,000 in the West Bank, 447,000 in Gaza and 574,000 more in Israel proper, where they have become citizens of the Jewish state and a long-range worry to Israeli authorities because their birth rate is much higher than that...
...dogmas of modern art is that Paris, between 1870 and 1939, was the cultural center of Europe and the world: the fount of norms, clearinghouse of ideas and Vatican of newness. Yet around the turn of the century, the supremacy of Paris did not seem quite so clear-cut. "If I had a son who wanted to be a painter," a 16-year-old student wrote in 1897, "I would not keep him in Spain for a moment, and do not imagine I would send him to Paris . . . but to Munich . . . as it is a city where painting is studied...
...deal less antagonistic than is usually supposed.) But if the cult of the primitive was one aspect of expressionism, the scrutiny of the far less familiar recesses of the psyche was another. Kokoschka's painting of the avant-garde architect Adolf Loos is one of the few great modern portraits...
...reform attack it as reactionary. Says Sociology Professor Orlando Patterson: "Arriving at some fixed notion of what constitutes an educated person-in this day and age. it just won't wash. It moves away from a view that learning to think for oneself is the key to a modern education...
With the possible exception of Choreographer Jerome Robbins, no one has done more to reinvent the modern Broadway musical than the team of Director Harold Prince and Composer Stephen Sondheim. In four successive collaborations-Company, Follies, A Little Night Music and Pacific Overtures-they have proved that America's foremost indigenous theatrical form can accommodate adult themes, unconventional music and innovative flights of staging and dance. Now Prince and Sondheim have adapted one of their shows to the screen, and the results are perversely stupefying. The film version of A Little Night Music looks less like a daring Prince...