Word: social
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...here is to blur the lines between audience, reviewer, cast and character. The "mystery," such as it is, is irrelevant, merely serving as an excuse for Stoppard to play with conventions of the stage. Set in a Gothic mansion on the moors, a group of caricatures expound upon their social problems--but somewhere outside, an escaped criminal lurks. The players include a dimwitted blonde (Susan Kelly), a melodramatic maiden (Meg Schellenberg) and a gruff crippled veteran (Wise) who play cards endlessly. Into the scene comes a stranger (Goldfarb) who seems to fit the description of the fugitive...
...including two of the first practitioners of women's history. Finally, I wish to comment on the false dilemma posed by your headline, "A Matter of Breadth versus Depth", and to do so in general terms. Where historians are concerned, breadth and depth are not antithetical concepts. Among the social sciences, history is that discipline whose practitioners most need to combine broad and specific knowledge. The great historians (Marc Bloch, Fernand Braudel, to speak only of the dead) created novel and lasting interpretations by combining profound knowledge of particular topics with a wide factual basis and broad conceptualization. This view...
...LINE of intellectuals criticizing America's lack of artistic achievements, begining with Tocqueville, is long and distinguished. Social scientists and literary men and women have told us time and again that our practical-minded, egalitarian and materialistic majority cannot recognize high art, does not really want to do so, and inevitably dilutes great creative achievements for popular consumption...
...Social pundits warn that DINKdom is often just a transitory state. "It is the moment before tradition sets in," says Faith Popcorn, chairman of New York City's BrainReserve, a hip consulting firm. "There is a desire for security, privacy, a nest. Anything you can make that is easy and secure, warm and available, you can market to their cocoon." Philip Kotler, professor of marketing at Northwestern, divides DINKs into upper and lower classes: U-DINKs and L-DINKs. No doubt, while the L-DINKs are rushing to graduate from K mart to Marshall Field, the U-DINKs will...
Though 15 million copies of the NAB have been distributed, Social Philosopher Michael Novak sums up the view of many Catholics when he observes that the 1970 Bible has "the practicality of a fast-food outlet." But, he adds, "you miss the music." The most withering attack was mounted in a 1977 Commonweal article by John T. Noonan, then a University of California law professor and now a federal judge. He declared that American Catholics are "being impoverished" and demanded that the bishops ban the version and order up another...