Word: preferments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pugwash Conferences were based on a 1955 manifesto that read, in part: "We have to learn to think in a new way. We have to learn to ask ourselves, not what steps can be taken to give military victory to whatever group we prefer, for there no longer are such steps; the question we have to ask ourselves is: what steps can be taken to prevent a military contest of which the issue must be disastrous to all parties...
...young colony produced in the 18th century. He was also its second major cultural expatriate, after Benjamin West. His career falls into two halves, the first set in provincial Boston and New York, the second in imperial London. And yet, fine as his English work was, one may prefer his American paintings, with their hard-won extraction of character. He is the classic example of the artist pulling himself up by the bootstraps, rising by grit and talent above the dilemmas of provinciality...
...this eye-on-the-ball Republican attitude is admirable in a way. After all, any reasonable conservative ought to prefer a vaguely moderate, above-politics President Powell to another four years of President Clinton. That is why Republican Brahmins are busy making wonderfully subtle distinctions about Powell's support for affirmative action--an issue they formerly saw in stark, absolutist terms. It is why even Ralph Reed, front man for Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition, is making cautiously friendly noises about a man who says brazenly that he is "pro-choice" on abortion...
...like picking and choosing my topics, and I actually believe the models are useful," he says. "That's what makes this arrangement work--I teach a course most people prefer not to teach...
...Kingdom of Leer--but genuine eroticism is hard to find. Maybe Verhoeven is right when he says, "Americans have a problem accepting sexuality. American society is more impregnated with Christian beliefs." And to those who find the very idea of sex unholy, it may be as pointless to prefer the erotic to the lurid as to choose a call girl over a hooker. But Showgirls is cold, antierotic. It just ain't sexy; it's only...