Word: relics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What's worse is the apparent disregard the University has for the department. Afro-American Studies has been cast aside as a relic of political activism and radicalism. It is treated more as an annoyance than as a meaningful contributor to Harvard. In such an atmosphere there is no real opportunity to receive a meaningful and vital education. At Harvard, it seemed to me, there was no hope, nor any future in Afro-American Studies...
...fastest-improving establishment in the country." Not for long. As if to mock that boast, most of the prison's 1,648 inmates went on a rampage last week to protest against overcrowding and outdated facilities. At least two died and scores were injured in the red brick relic, which was built in 1868 to incarcerate...
...That year Queen Victoria married Prince Albert, and in France both Ingres and Delacroix were at work. In 1926, when Monet died, Lenin was two years dead, and Picasso was already a middle-aged man of 45. Having lived such a span, Monet in old age looked like a relic of the 19th century -- hardly a modern artist at all. What could his painting offer a postcubist culture...
...apologist, children's fabulist and Oxbridge don who died in 1963 -- was a contemporary saint. His latest biographer notes with some bemusement that there is a kind of shrine to his memory at Illinois' evangelical Wheaton College: one of his old tankards is enclosed there in glass, like a relic. But difficulties face those who would canonize the author of Mere Christianity and the Narnia chronicles. A.N. Wilson, a British writer who has previously taken sensitive measure of Milton, Tolstoy and Hilaire Belloc, portrays Lewis as a blustery, hard-drinking eccentric whose private life included sequential liaisons with two married...