Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...difficulty with Goya is that for the past hundred years and more, he has been somewhat obscured by the Goyaesque. Our idea of him has been so much shaped by the Romantic sensibility that pervaded Europe after his death that we still like to see him as a death-haunted, irrational loner, pitted by his - temperament against his times -- the first skeptic of art, the titanic ancestor of surrealism. "It is when Goya abandons himself to his capacity for fantasy that he is most admirable," wrote Theophile Gautier in 1842. "No one can equal him in making black clouds, filled...
...even though present-day Republicans and their flacks have corrupted the American air with babblings about the L word, as though liberalism were something to be ashamed of, Goya's beliefs, so passionately held, still testify to the liberal conscience as the best hope of Western man in the past 200 years...
...Post-modern thought is about to annihilate all past thinkers--from Socrates to Marx--more effectively than the barbarians after Rome and their Dark Ages...
...Jenkins, a Cambridge resident who has walked his dog in the Radcliffe Yard for the past 10 years, is appointed president of Radcliffe College. "We looked everywhere, and we just couldn't find a qualified woman," explains President...
...Minority Students Alliance (MSA) from which women activists say they have taken their cue--will have its hands full in the next month responding to the forthcoming Verba Report on affirmative action in the faculty. The product of a high-level faculty committee's deliberations over the past semester, the report is expected to be released sometime in the next few weeks...