Word: expressionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In his unbridled pursuit of industrial growth, technological progress and military development, the Shah sent tens of thousands of young Iranians overseas for advanced education. Many of them stayed abroad as embittered exiles. The Shah did not seem to realize that the middle classes, which in time came to constitute...
With this new optimism came a shift in child-rearing emphasis from church to home: increasingly, parents focused less on a child's eternal fate and more on his making it in this world. Paintings mirrored the change. Children began to look more like-well, children, and were depicted...
For the second consecutive year, Husky Don Chambers won three events and gave a new meaning to the expression, "I'm feeling jumpy." The co-captain leaped 25 feet to grab first place in the long jump, soared 51 ft. 7 1/4 in. to top the triple jump, and bounded...
Meanwhile, the Black Star continues its twelve-day series of lectures, poetry readings, dramatic and choral performances. The aim of the program is the expression of women's works; the guest performers include the New England Women's Symphony (composed entirely of female musicians), the founder of Boston's Little...
The Black Star is a new theater group dedicated to social change through theater. "Theater always advocated something," declares co-founder Krieger. "It's the strongest means of expression there is," she adds. Funded primarily by the Office of the Arts--the group never charges admission--Black Star presents plays...