Sentences with phrase «at end of the twentieth century»

At the end of the twentieth century, the question is whether Protestants, Orthodox, and Catholics can believably set forth a distinctively Christian understanding of marriage.

At the end of the twentieth century, diversity is especially revered at most universities, whether secular or religious.

We find that these principles provide a beautiful and compelling answer to much of the confusion and contradiction in both teaching and practice which afflicts the Church in many areas at the end of the twentieth century, and at the beginning of the new millennium.

In loose blank verse akin to Milton's in Paradise Regained, Logue marshals all the imaginative resources available to an educated, sentient person at the end of the twentieth century.

The Latin Rite Roman Catholic liturgy as it is offered in most American parishes at the end of the twentieth century is so stunningly, astonishingly trivialized that it is indeed, taken on the surface, a stultifying, uninspiring, and even faith - sapping experience.

North American evangelicalism seems, at the end of the twentieth century, to be living in such an era.

At the end of the twentieth century, capitalism is the only game in town.

Entering into the disputes over all the necessary distinctions and qualifications lands us right back in the sixteenth century, which, one is inclined to believe, is not where the Holy Spirit intends to lead the Church at the end of the twentieth century.

The question posed by the title of this book is a simple one, which, on the face of it, fits squarely within the debate over the relation of religion to politics and to conflict that has emerged at the end of the twentieth century.

«So at the end of the twentieth century, here is the power of religion!

Regardless of one's own beliefs, there is something undeniably satisfying about the fact that the world of classical music at the end of the twentieth century is dominated by three men who can say of tonality what G. K. Chesterton said of his rediscovery of religious faith: «I freely confess all the idiotic ambitions of the end of the nineteenth century.

In addition, as Mahoney points out, anyone who reads The Russian Question at the End of the Twentieth Century can see that Solzhenitsyn repeatedly criticizes Russian tsars for favoring imperialism over internal development.

Within a society that long considered «lesbian motherhood» a contradiction in terms, what were the experiences of lesbian mothers at the end of the twentieth century?

Publications: Author: Abstract Art (college textbook); Contemporary Art (college textbook); An Introduction to Colorlogy (college textbook); Pluralism in Late Twentieth - Century Paris (professional paper); Narrative Illustration: Lucian Freud's Neo-Realism at the End of the Twentieth Century (professional paper).

Her previous books are Our Town: A Heartland Lynching, a Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White America (2006) and On Edge: Performance at the End of the Twentieth Century (1993).

Her previous books are Our Town: A Heartland Lynching, a Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White America (2006) and On Edge: Performance at the End of the Twentieth Century (1993 / revised second edition in 2008).

Finally, this thesis explores the historical legacy of these two exhibitions and relates the questions of identity and difference they illuminate to broader struggles for cultural pluralism at the end of the twentieth century.

Frédéric Brenner (b. 1959) is a French photographer best known for his opus Diaspora, the result of a twenty - five year search in over forty countries to create a visual record of the Jewish Diaspora at the end of the twentieth century.

Barton Lidicé Beneš's artistic practice was among the most incisive to address HIV / AIDS at the end of the twentieth century.

Here is a sideways view of the genre with a sense of the urban fabric at the end of the twentieth century.

Art at the End of the Twentieth Century: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art.

«Recent data from NSF - funded research in both Greenland and Antarctica demonstrate that fossil - fuel related emissions of both methane and ethane, two of the most abundant hydrocarbons in the atmosphere, declined at the end of the twentieth century... causes of the decline in methane emission rates to the atmosphere have been puzzling scientists for some time.

For example, new research estimates that as the Earth has warmed, the probability of a storm with precipitation levels like Hurricane Harvey was higher in Texas in 2017 than it was at the end of the twentieth century.

Not exact matches

Russia at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century was developing quite dynamically, and had they gone on that way it would have been much better.

To miss the significance of that at this, the end of the twentieth century, is to lose one's grip on a realistic appreciation of affairs both domestic and foreign.

At the close of the twentieth century, with ecological deterioration accelerating and the nuclear threat ever with us, we need to feel not acceptance but the challenge to join forces on the side of life, for while we, like all creatures, are ultimately part of a universe that is brutal and may well end, we have, while we live, a part to play different from that of any other creature: we are responsible agents who can join with our loving parent to help our own and other species to survive and flourish.

The end - times of the late twentieth century are on a global scale, and it is not only Christians who are at risk.

We can take some comfort at the fact that finally, toward the end of the twentieth century, prosecutors have begun applying criminal statutes to corporate officers who make decisions that (for instance) cause death or injury to a worker or to the public, and charges brought against these individuals include manslaughter and homicide charges.

One might suggest that the cultural revolution declared at the beginning of the twentieth century was delayed by the distraction of crises — from World War I («the Great War») through the end of the Cold War in 1989.

Whether at the beginning of the fifth century or at the end of the twentieth, the particulars of their meeting are always ambiguous.

My own view is that it can not be brought to maturity, at this tail end of the twentieth century, without taking into intimate account the lessons the new logic has taught us.

Progressivism, a populist reform movement in the early twentieth century, espoused by Presidents like Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, and grounded in Protestant moralism, which sought to make government both more responsive to the plight of the people, for instance using Constitutional amendments to deal with social problems like alcoholism and using government force to quash monopolies, and at the same time more representative of the will of the electorate, for instance instituting more democracy like the direct election of Senators and ending the corruption of Machine politics in the cities.

-- Neil Printz, art historianNo artist of the second half of the twentieth century was more famous — or in the end more famously misunderstood — than Andy Warhol: at once the most accessible and enigmatic, straightforward and elusive, naive and savagely ironic artist of his time.

The island has a story of being a legendary place, conceived as an imaginary «End of the World», an inhospitable place until its transmutation into a place that could be settled by European explorers at the beginning of twentieth century.

Turned out that Twentieth Century Imports might not have been in a position to grant that license at all, which resulted in a legal battle that ended without a clear answer and an out - of - court settlement.

1995 Pasted Paper: Collage in the 20th Century, Louis Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA 25 Years: An Exhibition of Selected Works, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Between Reality and Abstraction: California Art at the End of the Century, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX 1994 Balls, World Cup USA 1994, Newspace, Los Angeles, CA Twentieth — Century Drawings, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA In Plain Sight: Abstract Painting in Los Angeles, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, TX Paintings of the 80's, RosamundFelsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Fractured Identity: Cut and Paste, Julie Saul Gallery, New York pen & ink, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA Fawbush Gallery, New York Very Visual Dialogue, Personal Journeys in Abstract Painting, Rancho Santiago College Gallery, Santa Ana, CA

Just a few weeks later, Alexander Calder died at the age of seventy - eight, ending the most prolific and innovative artistic career of the twentieth century.

Throughout the twentieth century and accelerating with the rise of conceptualism and Michael Fried's prediction of the end of art, or at least the death of painting, critics, curators, and historians have questioned the validity of the medium while artists have continued to paint.

Important exhibitions include: On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century at The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2010); Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and Haus der Kunst, Munich (2012); Alice in Wonderland at Tate Liverpool, UK (2012); and FORTY at MoMA P.S. 1 (2016).

Just a few weeks later, Calder died at the age of seventy - eight, ending the most prolific and innovative artistic career of the twentieth century.

1992 Picturing Paradise: The Rain Forest at Risk, Fernbank Museum of Natural History, Atlanta, USA Summer Group Show, Texas Gallery, Houston, USA Documenta IX, Kassel, Germany Quotations, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, USA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Dayton Art Institute, USA Painting, Self Evident: Evolutions in Abstraction, The William Halsey Gallery, Simons Center for the Arts, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, USA (Exhibition on view here and simultaneously at two other venues, The Meddin Building and the Gibbes Museum of Art, during the Spoleto Festival) Summer Group Exhibition, Ginny Williams Gallery, Denver, USA Slow Art, P.S. 1 Museum, Long Island City, New York, USA Selective Vision, TransAmerica Corporation, San Francisco, USA Psycho, Kunsthalle, New York, USA (Inaugural exhibition curated by Christian Leigh) Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2/16 — 5/5/92) Twentieth Century Prints of the East End, Renee Fotouhi, East Hampton, NY

The work was reproduced at the end of the catalogue for the British Sculpture in the Twentieth Century survey exhibition, curated by Nicholas Serota and Sandy Nairne, at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1981.

«One of the rarest phenomena in regards to creative artists in the twentieth century is to sustain, over more than fifty years, a level of accomplishments that is as strong at the end as it was at the beginning and the middle.

Other important exhibitions include: On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2010; Afterimage: Drawing Through Process, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1999, and the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany, 2012; Alice in Wonderland at Tate Liverpool, U.K., 2012, and documenta 6, Kassel, Germany, 1977.

His first major success, «Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore», was produced right at the end of the last decade of the twentieth century.

His focus was on the notes from Benjamin's Arcades Project, a thirteen year examination of Parisian arcades at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century.

It's the latest research in more than a decade of work producing a climate «hockey stick» — graphs of global or regional temperatures showing relatively little variation over a millennium or more and then a sharp uptick since the middle of the twentieth century (the blade at the end of the stick).

We compared 23,000 days of observations in those records with late twentieth - century observations, and concluded that the extent of the sea ice at the end of winter was pretty much the same in the nineteenth and late twentieth century, but that the end - of - summer Arctic sea ice retreat is greater today than it was then.