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...before, he was converted to the work of Picasso and Braque. (He was soon well enough established as a painter that six of his canvases were included in the Armory Show of 1913, which brought the work of the European avant-garde to America, along with a lasting public uproar over whether modern art was art.) What Sheeler gradually realized was that the camera could find in the real world the fractured spaces of Picasso and the flat planes of Matisse. It could produce a picture of the side of a barn in which nothing had been altered but everything...
...late July, after the corruption at Enron, Worldcom and Tyco had seemingly mortally wounded consumer confidence, and the uproar against corporate crime was reaching its peak, it was convenient for Bush to join the battle cry and come down hard on the corporate villains. Likewise, it was convenient for Congress to pass the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002—also called the “Accounting Reform Act”—reaching out to the victimized common man and calling for the eradication of big business deceit...
...obvious reasons, the construction of the eyesores known as Mather House and Peabody Terrace in the 1970s angered nearby residents. More recently, the secret acquisition of acres upon acres of Allston and the ensuing uproar when the purchases became public knowledge earned Harvard the distrust of locals. Former University President Neil L. Rudenstine once told The Boston Globe that he considered the poor handling of the University’s Allston properties to be the greatest regret of his presidency...
...though not in the Netherlands or Belgium. Both these countries permit a physician to end a patient's life, provided that the patient requests it, that he or she is mentally sound at the time and that a second medical professional confirms the terminal diagnosis. Dignitas recently caused an uproar when it was reported that the organization had helped several mentally ill people take their own lives. "Someone suffering from depression may not be capable of making a rational decision," argues Thomas Schläpfer, a psychiatrist at Bern University Hospital. "Suicidal impulse is not uncommon in people with severe...
Summers gave a thoughtful speech in a church and incited an uproar. An entirely fact-based website was created to fight bias, and professors united to battle the scourge of censorship. Yet, when physical violence and direct acts of censorship are used in the opposite direction, few seem to have a problem. It’s a double standard that should horrify everyone...