Word: millennia
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...help but wish that the scope of “Drawing: A Broader Definition” was slightly narrower, or at least more focused. Tucked away within the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), the small in-house exhibition takes a kaleidoscopic view of its subject, and spans six millennia and nearly as many continents in 66 objects and 2 rooms. The show is now on display at the MFA through May 4, 2008. In the exhibition’s introductory text, Clifford S. Ackley, the MFA’s curator of prints and drawings, explains that the show?...
...relates to Asian designer labels and fashion in Asia more generally, the impact of marketing on consumerism is especially important. Asia is the land of the nouveau riche, an easy demographic to convince of the importance of symbols and status. As of the turn of the millennia, roughly half the world’s full-priced luxury purchases were made by Asians. And the industry is following the money: as of last year, Salvatore Ferragamo had 16 retailers in Singapore, a city-state of 4.5 million people; New York City, home to over 8.2 million and arguably the most developed...
...escape. The poems are never trite, owing to Pinsky’s cultivated and subtle use of historical and literary references. “Gulf Music” is a provocative work that draws new attention to topical themes that have dominated man’s discussion for millennia. The book does not conclude with an optimistic outlook for our future. As the chaos and abstraction of Pinsky’s work crescendos in the final third of “Gulf Music,” it becomes clear that Pinsky has not found the answers to the uncertainties that...
...even primarily to the present,” Faust said. “A university is not about results in the next quarter; it is not even about who a student has become by graduation. It is about learning that molds a lifetime, learning that transmits the heritage of millennia, learning that shapes the future.”As expected, Faust explicitly avoided sketching a specific road map for her tenure in her 30-minute speech, calling inaugural addresses “by definition pronouncements by individuals who don’t yet know what they are talking about...
...future—not simply or even primarily to the present. A university is not about results in the next quarter; it is not even about who a student has become by graduation. It is about learning that molds a lifetime, learning that transmits the heritage of millennia; learning that shapes the future. A university looks both backwards and forwards in ways that must—that even ought to—conflict with a public’s immediate concerns or demands. Universities make commitments to the timeless, and these investments have yields we cannot predict and often cannot...