Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...younger artists, most of whom worked as illustrators for the Philadelphia press--Sloan, Glackens, Shinn and Luks. They drank together, had long poker sessions, bellowed poetry at one another and argued late into the night. Sloan recalled 50 years later that Henri was "a catalyst, an enthusiast ... with the pioneer's contempt for cant and aestheticism." Moreover, he was genuinely interested in the young, and was to inspire several generations of students--not only his younger contemporaries like Sloan and Bellows, but Edward Hopper and Stuart Davis, the Dadaist Man Ray and, strange to say, Leon Trotsky, who briefly studied...
Experts remember Ebert as a pioneer in the establishment of HMOs as the most cost-effective means of providing health care...
...Professor Graber is an outstanding scholar, a pioneer in the field of press and public opinion," said Marvin Kalb, director of the Shorenstein Center, in a press release from the Kennedy School...
That comes as a great relief to Paul Graves, a snowboarding pioneer from Redding, Vermont, who has been fighting an uphill fight for 32 years. "In the early days," says Graves, "back when we were riding these primitive things called snurfers, skiers looked on us as lepers. I remember being escorted off Mammoth Mountain in California by the ski patrol and told never to come back." This week Mammoth is host to a special snowboard competition for women. At the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, in 1998, snowboarding will be introduced as a medal sport. (Park City, Utah, the site...
...Internet, called up by whoever needs them, whenever they need them. It's a development that could finally make true Sun's original and hitherto cryptic slogan: The Network Is the Computer. "There's a paradigm shift every 10 or 15 years," says Marc Andreessen, a Web pioneer and co-founder of Netscape Communications. "And we're in one right...