Word: reassessments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...credible enough, particularly because the life of no other great painter has less documentation. But five years ago, scholars discovered El Greco's only surviving writings. Shortly thereafter, Robert Mandle, director of the Museum of Art in Toledo, Ohio, sister city of Toledo. Spain, launched a program to reassess El Greco and to put together a major show of his art. It took a lot of doing. He enlisted the help of the Prado Museum. Washington's National Gallery Director J. Carter Brown, Scholars William Jordan at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Jonathan Brown...
...colleagues throughout the country were evicted from their Ivory Towers in the late '60s and forced to come to grips with difficult problems. The fact that many members of the academy acquiesced in the activities of a certain senator from Wisconsin a decade earlier, and failed to reassess their roles in society when faced with a frontal assault on academic freedom, shows that the "multiversity" had to be shaken from below to lessen its rigidity. The university-as-fortress had bred a state-of-siege mentality; thus Nathan Pusey called in the police...
GOODMAN'S ATTACK offers a vivid example of the extremism fostered by the Israelis uncompromising attitude--what Defense Minister Ariel Sharon calls the "will to live." It should therefore make Israelis take stock and reassess their country's intransigence. By basing their nation's survival upon military force and repression, Israelis are skirting future disaster--and risking the betrayal of the Zionist principles of social justice upon which their nation was founded. In other words, "the evil will to live" may ultimately bring about willful self-destruction. Israel's true security--its liberation--can only be maintained if the country...
...round-robin system will force coaches to reassess their teams, especially the fledgling one such as ice hockey--to which the commitment and intensity of the Ivy schools ranges from "quasi-club" to varsity. Coaches will have to ask themselves if their team is of a high-enough caliber to survive continuous Ivy League competition. Before, Parry said, "it was all too easy to jump into a championship meet." The round-robin system, he added, "will lead to consistency in all our programs...
...gained nationwide attention. In the subsequent months eyewitnesses have reversed their testimony, jurors have voted one way and later denounced their decision and a judge has pronounced a sentence which seemed unusually light But above all, the case has shaken the medical community's foundations, causing it to reassess its ethical guidelines and its methods of enforcing ethical codes...