Word: modernness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some sort of reward which the College may or may not decide to dispense upon us. The arrangement, frankly, cheapens the whole process of graduation. To quote Crimson editor Martha Bridegam '89, the set-up smacks more of the operators of a Soviet department store than of a modern American university...
...delighted in reading aloud to her sons. MacNeil's first nonbaby words were "gin fizz" -- the name of a teddy bear. He recalls being amazed, on a rare trip aboard his father's corvette, that sailing terms derived from Viking days (coxswain, starboard) still have a defining role in modern navies. MacNeil's memories of Nova Scotia have what D.H. Lawrence called a "spirit of place." In the book's best pages, one can almost whiff the salty tang of fog descending on proud, poky Halifax as winter comes...
...venerable granite-walled banks of Switzerland in such schemes. Since then Swiss banks have been chastened by the disclosure that their accounts were used in a billion-dollar money-laundering operation. The resulting political scandal, in which the Justice Minister was forced to resign, ranks as the worst in modern Swiss history...
LIKE A ONE-EYED CAT:PHOTOGRAPHS BY LEE FRIEDLANDER 1956-1987, Seattle Art Museum. Surprising perspectives on everyday images -- street scenes, jazz musicians, empty motel rooms, public monuments -- by a modern American master. Through...
Though Takeshita appeared determined to grit through the crisis, the spreading scandal -- the country's most pervasive in modern times -- may yet topple his Liberal Democratic Party government, much as a series of financial misdeeds brought down Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka in 1974. Since Recruit's involvement in influence peddling among the political bigwigs first came to | light in the press last June, 20 people have been forced to resign, including three members of Takeshita's Cabinet. The list of those implicated, numbering 155, includes not only L.D.P. and opposition politicians but also prominent members of Japan's powerful government...