Word: new
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...message refers to her new life outlook. Recently Brown has decided she needs to balance her priorities, a technique she says many other students need to learn...
...something to be liked; it had to be understood. Singing the blues, even listening to the blues, was supposed to be a commitment to a type of emotion and a type of experience. And what on earth, I used to wonder, could a middle class white boy from the New Jersey suburbs possibly know about the blues...
...alone are enough to fill a therapist's appointment book: "My Baby Don't Love Me" by John Lee Hooker, "Please Send Me Someone to Love" by Luther Allison, "Born Under a Bad Sign" by Albert King. Whatever problems I faced in the cookie-cutter world of middle class New Jersey seemed to pale in comparison to the stuff of "the blues...
...want to understand the blues, all you have to do is listen. It doesn't matter if you're from New Jersey or New Orleans; understanding the blues comes simply from knowing how to share. We all know how to suffer, goes the logic of the blues. If there's anything we have to learn, it's how to talk and listen to each other...
...Professor Wassily Leontief, head of the Harvard Society of Fellows, approached Rothko with a proposal to donate his artwork for the society's new meeting place, the penthouse of the Holyoke Center, to be designed by noted architect Jose Luis Sert, who also designed the Science Center and Peabody Terrace. Rothko, enamored with dreams of creating a public space with his artwork, was eager to bring this vision to fruition. Ideally, Rothko preferred that the viewer stand a mere 18 inches away from the surface of his paintings, so that his glowing canvases governed even peripheral vision. And still, what...