Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson op-ed published the week afterthis year's Cultural Rhythms, Fowler and co-authorKamil E. Redmond '00 said the festival exoticizesthe cultures it portrays by making ethnictraditions seem like amusing novelties withoutexplaining how these practices fit into theirperformers' complex, modern identities...
James L. Kugel, Starr professor of classical and modern Jewish and Hebrew literature and of comparative literature, teacher of this semester's largest class, Literature and Arts C-37, "The Bible and Its Interpreters," also gave his approval...
...site calls video and performance artist Joan Jonas "a seminal figure in the worlds of dance/performance and video/film/installation." She is a recipient of several awards, including the Hyogo Prefecture Museum of Modern Art prize, the Polaroid Award for Video and the Maya Deren Award for Video...
...strategy behind this extension of the NATO air war against Slobodan Milosevic has a devilish design: to break the spirit of the Serbian people by depriving them of modern conveniences. When military planners refer to "bombing them back to the Stone Age," this is what they have in mind: everything from bridges to television stations has become a target. Many Serbs are now living by candlelight, eating food that doesn't require refrigeration and sleeping--if they can sleep at all--with the uneasy knowledge that 0.07% of NATO's bombs do go astray. Not surprisingly, as the allied target...
When the lord of the underworld snatched away her beloved daughter, Demeter was inconsolable. She wandered the world and in her misery allowed the fields to lie barren. In modern parlance, she was "in trauma." Today the Greek goddess of agriculture might have talked about her loss, vented her frustration and worked through her grief. Certainly, she would not have been left alone with her sorrow...