Word: post-modern
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Even though Dean Hudna coined the phrase "post-modern" in 1946, the GSD was not associated with any of the movements that sought alternatives to Modernism in the late 1960s and 1970s...
With prancing, stylized acting, colorful costumes and fantastical puppets, the actors of the ART bring to life a childishly innocent fable of love, death, ambition and jealousy with a sheen of post-modern wisdom. It's an easy fairy tale to like--pretty and suave, allegorical but not preachy. Nothing difficult, just an opportunity to sit back and enjoy...
...professional dance and attempts to have the classes mirror those trends. "I try to keep current with what the interests are in the dance world at large--post-modernism has become a great cry," she says. Accordingly, the Center has begun offering classes with post-modernist teachers and has sponsored an exhibit in post-modern dance which is presently showing at Widener Library...
...chief form of classical modernist painting, abstract art. A general culture glut opens the present to a limitless eclecticism and disarms taste by making everything "interesting." And, as the critic Charles Newman argues in the most provocative book on this problem yet written by an American, The Post-Modern Aura, its net effect is inflation: the permeability the past has acquired is the natural ground of hype in the present...
Although unpleasing is appearance, the cockroach once inspired a poem from post-modern novelist Christopher Morely...