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Only by asserting that Marxism was itself a millenarian religion can one argue a link between such artists and the ideology of the revolution. The motor of new Russian art was its belief that the world was on the brink of inconceivable change. Sever the strands of the past, leap into the future. "Only he is alive," Malevich pronounced, "who rejects his convictions of yesterday." Lissitzky's "prouns" -- a term he coined from the Russian words meaning project of the affirmation of the new -- resemble plans or aerial views of Utopian structures, an abstract New Jerusalem in paint. They...
Maybe it isn't surprising that the first big menopause books to greet the baby boomers are so morbid and alarmist. A book titled Menopause: No Big Deal might better describe the experience of a generation of busy, high-achieving women. But it probably wouldn't leap off the shelves...
...also faster than the speed of light and can leap tall buildings in a single bound...
...Harvard also knows that it scored a major victory last weekend at Yale when it crushed the Elis 3-0 and leap-frogged from sixth place in the Ivies to third...
This kind of total-immersion experience, already being explored in places such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab and the University of Washington's Human Interface Technology Lab, will be just one part of a great leap in learning that will take place by the middle of the 21st century. Part of the change will be technological: highly advanced computers will serve as both tutors and libraries, interacting with students individually and giving them access to a universe of information so vast that it will make today's Library of Congress look like a small-town facility...