Word: modernizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With the advent of Internet auction sites, it may seem that traditional auction houses will soon be going the way of the dinosaur. But Skinner's Motion Pictures Posters & Ephemera auction on Nov. 20 proved that the traditional auction venue is still popular, and in fact thriving in these modern times...
...Depends on your definition of naked. Last year during the primal scream I participated in running wearing a suit and tie to make a statement about modern society in the sense that which of us is truly naked. It was sort of a "Where's Waldo" thing, this person amongst all the naked, in a more literal sense, people...
Elsewhere, professorships funded by the Turkish government have been controversial. At Princeton, the Ataturk Professorship in Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies has drawn strong reaction from alumni, according to Princeton's daily newspaper...
Margaret B. Alexiou is happy with the fact that Harvard gets money from different places. After all, she points out, as Seferis Chair of Modern Greek she holds a chair entirely funded by Greek monies, including academic foundations...
...When I came there were no graduates with money for just modern Greek. Now 18 have done doctorates with a modern Greek element," she says. "That's quite an impressive number...