Word: postmodernism
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...Secretary of State, thought that Britain had made a historic error by failing to join the coal and steel community - they have often since been bemused by Europe's lack of nationalistic assertiveness. As Roger Cohen wrote in the International Herald Tribune recently, "The quiet glory of the postnational, postmodern entity is not the glory of the young, vigorous, flag-waving America...
Pootie Tang was in my opinion a brilliant film and a totally new kind of cinema. Do you see it as arty and postmodern, or am I just tripping?- Rebecca Shaeffer, Washington...
...latent conflict between the postmodern hydra’s twin heads of diversity and choice is therefore resolved quite neatly. Both diversity and choice serve a larger, if largely subconscious goal in the contemporary Academy: a full realization of existential equality...
With the freshman housing lottery, two of the most inviolate tenets of the postmodern university—diversity and personal choice—collide. If only each individual can determine what is best for himself, few concerns can therefore justify restricting his personal liberty and choice. Yet as the administration of a decade ago concluded, individuals do not always choose correctly—or at least in accordance with progressive assumptions about the most appropriate ethnic proportions for each House...
...songs she had selected for her presentation. Heilmann—standing beneath projections of paintings inspired by California’s beaches, “The Simpsons,” and an album cover by The Drifters—did her part to demystify the world of postmodern art for those who asked. Speaking about her personal experiences during the psychedelic 1970’s as well as her evolution from minimalism to a postmodern version of abstract expressionism, Heilmann emphasized her connection to both high and low culture. “I started out as a sort...