Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Such uniformity is neither possible nor desirable. The modern liberal tradition which undergirds our academic life demands that we develop ourselves first and foremost as humans, not as members of particular groups. This tradition demands that we consider the whole, not merely the particular, if we are to be complete. John Stuart Mill wrote that "human nature is not a machine to be built after a model...but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides." Those who make an X, Y statement in an academic setting, highlight a particular branch of his being...
...spent making education more responsive to specific student identities that undergraduates could not refrain from infusing the personal into the academic. We all became more aware of our own cultures and histories as a result of the 1950s and 1960s, but perhaps the price was the clouding of our modern liberal individuality and scholarly judgment...
...things Irish, of a nation whose emigrants to this country produced, at least in part, over 45 million Irish-Americans living today. We sing of the "old country," talking lovingly about the light mists that caress her rolling green fields, dancing to her vibrant music traditional and modern, and celebrating this wondrous "Isle of Saints and Scholars." As we raise a pint in modern America, we focus on the joys of being Irish and do not remember what it is to be hungry...
...place of Laclos's 18th century decadents, Cruel Intentions offers us a modern prep-school Lothario (Ryan Phillippe, who looks a little like Leonardo DiCaprio on mean pills) and his half-sister (Sarah Michelle Gellar, deploying her TV vampire-slaying smarts in a lesser cause). But what they do on their summer vacation (misspent in upper-crust Manhattan and Long Island) is the same old story--an elaborate scheme to deflower a couple of virgins (Reese Witherspoon and Selma Blair) whose virtue irritates and challenges them. As in all the other versions of this story, they succeed, but eventually receive...
Ellsworth Kelly: The Early Drawings, featuring 220 drawings and collages, seeks to trace Kelly's formative years in France as a young artist searching not for self but for non-self. As Yve-Alain Bois, Joseph Pulitzer Jr. Professor of Modern Art, points out "the grail he (Kelly) sought was his own effacement." During the period of 1948-1955, Kelly sought to find a way not to compose, to relinquish personal agency over his work. The exhibit, arranged chronologically, depicts three methods: the direct copy or transfer system, automatic drawings, and grid work established by chance...