Search Details

Word: modern (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...talk, entitled “Giving Back: Finding the Best Way to Make a Difference,” is going to address some of the most complicated and pressing issues facing our modern world. He will discuss the importance of charity work, which has taken a larger role in his life since he decided to start working full-time for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation...

Author: By Sophie T. Bearman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dropout to Speak at Harvard | 4/6/2010 | See Source »

...continued, “means virtuosity, or the skill of descriptive, pictorial art.” The term, however, does not simply describe virtuoso set design. Media scenography labels an entirely new fusion of visual and auditory creation that reaches far beyond the classical theatre into modern performance spaces. It is, in its own way, a form of “multimedia storytelling,” according to Hagebölling...

Author: By Alyssa A. Botelho, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hagebölling Explores New Intermedia | 4/6/2010 | See Source »

...though the two came from different cultural backgrounds and religious upbringings, Rakesh Khurana says such “surface-level differences” mattered much less than their shared values. This, he says, is integral to the modern college experience, where many people from various backgrounds have the opportunity to connect...

Author: By Danielle J. Kolin and Naveen N. Srivatsa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: New Cabot Masters Strive to Motivate | 4/6/2010 | See Source »

Trained as a computer scientist and mathematician, Knep can relate to the scientific perspective and use that background in his role as a new media artist. Using modern tools of science and technology, which he once worked with in the special effects industry, Knep appropriates universal themes of change, healing, struggle, and acceptance to address the impact of science on our lives...

Author: By Lauren B. Paul, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Knep Links Science and Art | 4/6/2010 | See Source »

...1960s and 1970s there was a lot of progressive and radical thought that said that workers are too invisible,” said Jaeger. However, Ortiz is confident that its message still applies in contemporary society and updated its dialogue to avoid alienating a modern audience...

Author: By Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Proletariart | 4/6/2010 | See Source »

Previous | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | Next