Word: presentational
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with essays by Perez Sanchez and Sayre as well as other art historians such as Boston University's Fred Licht, is both a summary of existing Goya scholarship and a breaking of much new ground. Its theme is explicit: to show Goya's role in the Spanish Enlightenment, to present him as a man immersed in the values of liberal thought, to amend his reputation as a solitary fantasist who did sardonic court portraits on the side...
...cannot be an accident that Goya adapted Jovellanos' pose for the dreaming figure in The Sleep of Reason. He had no illusions about the distance between liberal hope and the possibility of its fulfillment. But 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...
...plays. In that production, the work seemed an intriguing but unpolished amalgam of kitchen-sink realism (there is literally one onstage) and window-rattling, curtain-swirling supernaturalism. Not much of the actual text has changed. But at the Goodman the play confidently shuttles spectators between the everyday present and the ghostly remnants of the past, until ultimately the two worlds collide. The first glimpse of the spookily poetic comes before a word is spoken, when a shaft of white light illumines the piano, which by itself plays an eerily cheerful...
...that the use of lethal force in non-life-threatening situations should be necessary to preserve order." Such comments carry weight in Jerusalem at a time when the Israeli government feels considerable pressure to pursue a diplomatic solution. Prime Minister Shamir is drawing up a new peace plan to present to Washington in March that he hopes will cool the fire in the territories by offering a modicum of political autonomy...
Students also have bi-weekly, one-on-one meetings with tutors. This sort of tutorial program should be carried over to the other laboratory science departments. At present, other departments have either optional tutorial programs or none...