Word: visualizers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chieu"--were beautiful additions to the script. Twice during the play, slides were shown on the back wall of the set. The first set of slides featured professional Asian-American athletes and newspaper articles describing their lack of presence and respect in the media. The second set was a visual narrative of recent democracy protests in China. This use of slide shows during the play was an effective technique, though it should have been incorporated more throughout the play. As it was, they were disruptive but interesting...
There are seven such concentrations: Comparative Study of Religion, History and Literature, History and Science, Literature, Social Studies, Visual and Environmental Studies and Women's Studies...
Hitler, one might say, had presented the Allies with an immense cultural gift, not that everyone appreciated it. And it wasn't just painters and sculptors. After the Bauhaus, the leading experimental visual-arts school in Germany, was suppressed, some of its leading lights--Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy--moved to America, where their example and teaching changed its architecture, making New York City and Chicago the epicenters of the postwar International Style. And the academic study of art history in America, which had been fairly larval before the 1930s, was transformed...
...chapter in American cultural history, and one worth recalling today, as the air grows thicker with politically opportunistic denunciations of the immigrant--as though America was ever anything but an immigrant society. Barron's timing is impeccable, but this is not the kind of show that offers a continuous visual feast or a crescendo of visual achievement. It is heavy (and has to be) with information, pamphlets, books, press clippings, old exhibition catalogs. It comes up with some intensely interesting and little-known figures, such as Varian Fry, the Scarlet Pimpernel of cultural rescue, who after 1940 ran an emergency...
...socially active yet also find the strength and time for religion would inspire others to explore their own religious heritage. Awareness comes with exposure. That's the most valuable thing any Harvard religious group can offer. HIS organized an Islamic Awareness Week in the fall, with everything from visual displays in the Science Center to speaker forums in the evenings. On that level, I wish every campus group would do the same. I know that I would attend...