Word: reals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...classicist able to bend Greco-Roman ideals to the service of French patriotism, David embodied the contradictions of the century. More important, his gruesomely vivid portrait of the assassinated revolutionist Jean-Paul Marat dying in a bathtub established him as the first artist to make painting relevant to real and immediate events destined for history. "The father of the entire modern school," Delacroix called...
Part of Schifrin's versatility stems from his parents' background. His grandfather had traveled from his native Russia to Amsterdam, intending to catch the first ship to the U.S. The only boat leaving immediately was bound for Buenos Aires, so he took it. Thus, Lalo (his real first name is Boris) was born in 1932 in a city that drew no cultural and social lines between various forms of music. Argentine folk music, Spanish songs, American jazz and pop, the classics, were all treated on a par-especially in the household run by Schifrin's father, concertmaster...
...path of progress. Today, though, experts seem more inclined to endorse Jean Jacques Rousseau's vision of the noble savage living in a Golden Age. And they go so far as to suggest that present civilization, despite its vast artistic and material advances, is in some ways no real improvement on the past. "It is still an open question whether man will be able to survive the exceedingly complex and unstable ecological conditions he has created for himself," write Lee and DeVore. "If he fails in this task, interplanetary archaeologists of the future will classify our planet...
...genuine pleasure but merely canceling out an underlying depression and boredom. Moreover, Philip contends, the habitual user becomes so preoccupied with the drug mystique and the subculture attending it that the effect is a narrowing of consciousness and a focusing of attention upon the drug world instead of the real one. This type of user may claim that he becomes more creative, but actually he becomes less productive, focusing entirely upon the present and ignoring future goals...
...They have brought in CISL, Italy's powerful Christian Democratic trade union, to represent them, while McKee has the backing of Italy's Confederation of Italian Industry. Somehow, McKee President Merrill Cox must figure out how to regain control of a firm whose employees are its only real assets...