Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...outcry came before practically anyone had actually viewed the art. If Giuliani and Mrs. Clinton had bothered to go, they would have seen an exhibition that trades shock for shallowness with all the easy insouciance of youth. It has long been a vogue of contemporary art to focus on social issues at the expense of classical ideals of beauty, and the art here follows that vogue with a vengeance. That's not to say that the work doesn't have jolts of visual energy, corrosive or not. It is an energy that was new to the somnolent British art scene...
...MacDonald's jolting account illustrates, all share the same problems and are familiar with social workers, fatherless households and handouts of surplus cheese. "The only difference," writes the author, "was that in the black and Latino neighborhoods people were saying the words: poverty, drugs, guns, crime, race, class, corruption...
These impediments, however, are counterbalanced by innovations in travel, telecommunications, social understanding, health and life expectancy. Savvy parents and grandparents are harnessing these to strengthen intergenerational ties. "We have to reinvent ourselves as we go along, but we have more time to get it right," says Lillian Carson, a psychotherapist in Santa Barbara, Calif...
...world with a shortage of good day care and an abundance of single-parent and two-career households, grandparents willing to care for their grandchildren are highly prized. In the old days, such care was generally rendered by Grandma. Today the social forces that produced the stay-at-home dad have introduced the caregiver granddad. Peter Gross, a retired law professor, picks up grandsons Paul, 3, and Mark, 18 months, every weekday morning at 8:15 and cares for them in his San Francisco home until 6 p.m. "It's a very close, intense relationship that's at the center...
...taken out of grandparenting, leaving them with all the responsibilities of raising a child. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 3.7 million grandparents had grandchildren living with them in 1997, about 35% without a parent present. Some are as young as 35; others are in their 80s. They cross social, economic and religious lines, and their numbers are rising...