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People make noises about "Victorian morality" as a synonym for all those repressive forces that denied humanity its natural evolution toward Hustler magazine and Laurel Canyon group-gropes, but Victorian culture is still somewhat enigmatic. Nowhere is this truer than in painting. Modernism, the art of the past hundred years, defined itself in opposition to 19th century "bourgeois" painting: the art of the Salon in France, of the Royal Academy in England. Cezanne, Picasso and Matisse were everything that Sir Edwin Landseer, Sir Edward John Poynter and Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema were not and could not be. There...
...supporters of the status quo and allies of oppressive regimes. Then, in a general conference convened that year in the Colombian city of Medellin, they declared their independence, denouncing "institutionalized violence" in Latin American society and vowing to campaign against "injustices and excesses of power." Medellin swiftly became a synonym for progressive action−and frequently radicalism−in the Latin American church. Under the banner of the "theology of liberation," many priests, nuns and lay people used an unusual synthesis of Marxian economic analysis and biblical theology to align the church with the continent's poor. The theology...
...thousand B movies, Berlin-bound on the night train with a dream and an Olivetti. The dream, however, has turned sour. For most freelancers, magazine writing today has become the slum of journalism-overcrowded, underpaid, littered with rejection slips-and the denizens are growing restless. "It's a synonym for unemployed bum," grumbles John Jerome, who left the editorship of Skiing a decade ago to write for himself and has spent half that time in debt. Warren G. Bovée, acting dean of the Marquette University journalism school, once calculated that some 25,000 citizens call themselves freelancers...
...consumers-that is, nearly everyone. But they are no laughing matter for companies that must constantly battle to protect their valuable turf in trademarks or risk losing them without compensation. Xerox, for example, spends some $100,000 a year for ads explaining that its corporate name is not a synonym for making a photocopy but the registered trademark for a specific process involving only Xerox machines. In the U.S. alone, the Coca-Cola Co. retains three lawyers to stand guard over the trademark "Coke." Other companies like IBM, RCA and Gillette also retain full-time trademark attorneys to keep products...
...revised sections of the test include a mathematical section stressing the ability to work with numbers rather than knowledge of complicated formulae, and a verbal section posing clinical type situations rather than word analogies and synonym-antonym problems, according to Erdmann...