Word: modernness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MILES: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Miles Davis with Quincy Troupe (Simon & Schuster; $21.95). An as-told-to memoir by a protean genius of modern jazz who played with Bird, Diz and countless other legends. With all the uglies -- drugs, booze, women betrayed -- writ large...
...Modern science, a cowboy achievement, paradoxically favors the Indian view of life. Nature is alive. The barest Antarctic rock is crawling with microbes. Viruses float on the dust. Bacteria help digest our food for us. According to modern evolutionary biology, our very cells are cities of formerly independent organisms. On the molecular level, the distinction between self and nonself disappears in a blur of semipermeable membranes. Nature goes on within and without us. It wafts through us like a breeze through a screened porch. On the biological level, the world is a seamless continuum of energy and information passing back...
Sponsored jointly by the Women's Center and the Radcliffe Union of Students, this showing of Still Killing Us Softly takes place this evening at 6:30 p.m. A provacative film about how the violence and abuses of modern society are harmful to women and their development, Still Killing Us Softly promises to provide for engaging discussion...
Tuesday, Davis announced that for-mer Raider great Art Shell will be the team's new coach, replacing Mike Shanahan. Shell is the first Black head Coach in the 64-year modern history...
...Quantitative Reasoning Requirement (QRR) simply forces the computer illiterates to cram and scram. And although the Core Curriculum takes painstalking measures to help students appreciate the aesthetic of thought, it directs little effort towards the aesthetics of modern technology...