Word: reactional
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...radically from that in Iran. If the hostage situation played to his strengths?patience, caution and carefully calibrated movements?the Soviet invasion called for something else. For guidance, Carter dusted off a 150-page analysis that had been prepared in 1968 by State Department experts on the possible U.S. reactions to the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Reports TIME Correspondent Johanna McGeary: "The President was deeply struck by what he read in that report. When he met Thursday afternoon with his top aides in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, he reminded them that what had dissipated the impact...
...last exclaimed, "Oh, let's just call them postimpressionists; at any rate, they came after the impressionists!" And so the word was born. It described nothing, but it indicated that after 1880, the annus mirabilis that saw the birth of modern art, there had been a general reaction against impressionism among younger European painters, sometimes even within the ranks of the impressionists themselves...
What was the anti-impressionist reaction of the 1880s all about? Partly, subject matter, the issue of what painting could express. Impressionism had been the art of the bourgeois paradise, naturalism unmodulated by idea. It had no content beyond the "view" ("Monet is only an eye," Cezanne said, "but good God, what an eye!"), no governing system of imagery, no symbols. To younger artists, it therefore seemed lax and unambitious. They wanted to return painting to a more demanding kind of diction ?exemplary and grand, like the art of the museums. All manner of stylistic sources fed into their...
Harvard, in a one-paragraph statement released Friday, lauded city leaders and residents for their reaction to the stabbing...
Benjamin I. Schwartz, Williams Professor of History and Political Science, was not impressed with North Korea's offer. "My first inclination is not to overplay it. The proposal could simply be a reaction to the current political and economic instability in South Korea, a move calculated to create further instability...