Word: particularity
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...that will honor each man’s service to the state’s community of African-American males. Counter, an associate professor of neurology and neuroscience, will receive the recognition from the Concerned Black Men of Massachusetts largely for his work within the greater Boston community, in particular the science programs he has conducted to encourage more young black boys and girls to go into science. “I’ve helped to train them in the area of science in hopes they would make something great of themselves,” Counter said...
...movement. By incorporating multiple frames from the start, the process used in GEPPETTO results in a less artificial-looking result than can be normally obtained through CG animation. In presentations to animation classes this past week, Ferguson and Kroiter screened a number of shorts created using their technology. In particular, the films “Moon Man Newfie” and Ferguson’s “Falling in Love Again” received warm reactions. “It looked like you could actually reach out and grab the objects, and it was unlike anything...
...miniscule that it looks like a solid line to the naked eye.Yet one does not get lost in the details, and it’s easy to grasp the overarching themes running throughout the exhibition. The centrality of these works to Boston, and especially Harvard, gives the collection particular relevance. Norton was Harvard’s first professor of fine arts, and Moore was Harvard’s first professor of studio art, as well as the first director of the Fogg.It is interesting to see the devotion of this group of artists to the comparatively conservative Ruskinian tradition, made...
Essentially, the group continues in a well-established New England tradition of masturbatory affirmation of the region’s alleged superiority to “a nation of crazy.” While this particular Facebook group appears to exist on a somewhat joking level, the entire gist of its premise permeates this area of the country so fervently that I’m pretty sure most New Englanders do profess to live in the last “bastion of sanity...
...screen. It was written by Shintaro Ishihara, the governor of Tokyo and one of Japan's most nationalistic politicians. That such a film would play in the mainstream and be made with technical support from today's Japanese military, which you'd think would steer clear of this particular subject, will be grist for the mill to those warning of a rise in "dangerous" nationalism in Japan...