Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Guillory, a scholar of Renaissance literature and literary theory, "literature and science define two huge elements of modern experience...
...There are a number of quite interesting Renaissance scientific works that should be of interest to students of literature, as well as literary works that participated in the general struggle of early modern writers with questions that came to be considered scientific," he said...
...modern America for one person to have one job his whole life is extremely unusual. In medieval France or medieval China, it would be completely normal for one person to have one job and live in one place his entire life. In terms of overall history, it isn't quite as freakish as it seems in Dunster House. The whole world is different now, you see. And to have the difference of the whole world reflected right where I live is much more exciting than...there's nothing wrong with living in Concord [traditional bedroom community of Harvard professors...
...Team Rodent: How Disney Devours the World, reads like a marriage of the opinionated, highly personal journalism of Tom Wolfe and Joan Didion and the rants of Dennis Miller. One hesitates to apply the word "book" to Hiaasen's project-the slim volume bears a greater resemblance to a modern-day muckraking pamphlet, complete with attacks on the nefarious consequences of unchecked big business...
...experience when Judas accosts him in the bathroom during the senior prom. Yet the play has no explicit sex (and very little implicit) and no cheap lampooning of the Greatest Story Ever Told. Indeed, Corpus Christi is a serious, even reverent retelling of the Christ story in a modern idiom--quite close, in its way, to the original. Jesus heals a truck driver of leprosy, raises Lazarus from the dead and predicts his own betrayal at the Last Supper. ("He's drunk, guys," says an Apostle. "It's the wine talking.") If the point is to make Jesus' teachings live...