Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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> The problem of overpopulation is recognized for the first time in a presidential message to Congress, 1969.
> Richard Nixon asks Congress for approval of the SST jetliner, 1969.
> New York State enacts the nation's first conservation bill of rights, 1969.
THOUGH nobody planned them that way, the shows resonate with one another. They assert how we see and have seen-over the best part of a millennium, and right at this moment. The assertions are sometimes disturbing. Munich: 396 icons, barbaric gemstones strewn across the velvet sophistications of Orthodox theology...
The eyes insist that there is order among these exhibitions. Most obviously, they define a chronology of seeing through 700 years, during which the Western vision has come full spiral from the hieratic to the hieratic. For the anonymous Byzantine monk painting the Mother of God, the stylized emotions of...