Word: provinciale
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Abstract Expressionism, the movement that set American art on the world map after World War II, was to a large extent the product of this deeply implanted instinct for the spiritual and the visionary. Sometimes it was drenched in a yearning for nature as a source of metaphor, as in...
The man who brought it in was Thomas Jefferson, in his role as architect. Educated in Williamsburg, Virginia, he despised its provincial-English buildings as "rude, mis-shapen piles." Jefferson found his model for a new American architecture in the south of France: a Roman temple, the so-called Maison...
This champion of globalization started life in a provincial setting: the isolated west coast of Sweden. Educated as an economist, Barnevik left a management-consulting job to help a troubled Swedish steel company. Success there led to the ceo spot at Asea, a large electrical-engineering firm then in decline...
On the second floor of the Busch-Resinger Museum are a handful of aptly curated rooms housing selections from the collection of Merrill C. Berman '60, who himself must have an interesting tale to tell about the amalgamation of such an impressive display of early Soviet propaganda. Each gallery houses...
The SCUSA conference made me realize just how provincial my view-point was. I grew up in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., where many of my friends were the children of diplomats and World Bank officials. At Harvard, too, most of the people I met despised isolationism. I had always...