Word: sides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...been asked, amid the intellectual and political convulsions that tore Spain asunder between 1790 and 1815, "Whose side are you on?", he would have answered, "Reason's." For Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, the gilder's son from Aragon, did not have the education of a Diderot or a Rousseau, but he was completely a figure of the Enlightenment; his paintings and prints, with their obsessive imagery of the conflict of light and darkness, are perhaps its supreme metaphorical expression in European art outside of the classically formalized work of Jacques-Louis David...
...vote in unprecedented numbers and secure a fifth seat. Graham adds that the usual turnout for city council elections is around 35 percent of the electorate. In this election, she says creating a sense of urgency to get out the vote may be the most important task for either side...
...that I am here, Harvard seems to be tipping to one side. Among the six major sciences, only physics has an increasing number of concentators. The other departments are watching their numbers of concentrators decrease significantly...
...times the mayor seemed to be the only councillor interested in the human side of the evening's events. In the middle of debate on the complex Harvard Motor Inn development proposal, Vellucci brought up the acute shortage of textbooks in city schools...