Word: modernness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TIME is a weekly newsmagazine, aimed to serve the modern necessity of keeping people well informed. TIME is interested not in how much it includes between its covers but in how much it gets off its pages into the minds of its readers...
...Paris and Boston beguiled the crowds and disappointed everyone else. Degas was much harder to take, with his spiny intelligence (never Renoir's problem), his puzzling mixtures of categories, his unconventional cropping, his "coldness." The long continuities of his work have not always been obvious. Degas was the most modern of artists, but his kind of modernity, entailing a passionate working relationship with the past, hardly exists today. How we would have bored him, with our feeble jabber of postmodernist "appropriation...
...beyond the ruins of the temple, something else was stirring: a sense of the century as unique in itself, full of what Baudelaire called the "Heroism of Modern Life." Its chief bearers, in painting, were to be Manet and Degas...
...only the first of the provocative ideas that fill the pages of Three Scientists and Their Gods, a book that intertwines the biographies of three men with an exploration of the modern concept of "information...
...book continues, its two strands, scientific exposition and scientific biography, come together as we begin to glimpse the deep rationale behind it. Wright's purpose is not merely to understand the nature of meaningful information; it is to explore the meaning of life and what modern science has to say on the value of human existence. His method shows that abstract theories of information are ultimately still the products of individual thinkers...