Sentences with phrase «classical languages at»

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The old - school professors opposed the abandonment of the classical languages, but those working toward a new core curriculum at Columbia pointed to the near - universal use of the Bible in English.

Byzantium, for its part, never completely cast off from its moorings in ancient Greece and always kept, at least in educated circles, the classical form of written language.

Though Marx and Engels later avoided the philosophical language of their early years, and in the Manifesto of the Communist Party laughed at the German literati who «beneath the French criticism of the economic functions of money... wrote «Alienation of Humanity,» 6 they always recognized that «The German Working class movement is the heir of German classical philosophy.

At first, fMRI was used primarily to explore classical questions involving attention, memory, language, and perception.

In a sense, the IB's programs express the effort to nurture both ambitions: the Diploma Program along with its pre-secondary school counterparts embody the rigors of classical education, including the arts and sciences and mathematics, languages, and independent writing projects; at the same time the IB has developed career programs for students focused on more immediate employment.

Kalliope Lee studied Classical Literatures and Languages as an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, focusing on Greek Tragedy and Ancient Greek language.

At Fourteen30 Contemporary, Rafferty, a participant in this year's Whitney Biennial, presents new work concerning language and the body, a connection bridged through the concept of «figure drawing,» which applies both to the classical practice of artists observing and representing a model as well as using the innate elasticity of words to suggest multiple, sometimes contradictory meanings.

His love of language was rooted in the rigorous classical education he received at Portora Royal school, Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, whose old boys included Oscar Wilde and Samuel Beckett.

Trained at Swarthmore, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and Yale, Akunyili Crosby uses the languages and strategies of Western art, absorbing and subverting classical approaches in order to express ideas more pertinent to our times.

As a teacher at Black Mountain College and a pioneer of Abstraction, Albers discussed these notions with his students, who happened to also be writers thinking about how to redefine language with a sociopolitical purpose, to push the boundaries of the classical, and to move into postwar experimentation.

On any given week, more than a dozen free workshops are hosted at the project's storefront on Roosevelt Avenue, including dance, nutrition, childcare, bicycle maintenance, construction safety, classical music, English language through art history, Spanish for Mandarin speakers, computer literacy, screen printing, immigration law, and counseling for women who are victims of domestic violence.

Other works on view include a suite of watercolors by Guo Hongwei, combining his renderings of American iconography with his father's calligraphy of Chinese classical poems; Chen Wei's staged photographs in the traditions of Gregory Crewdson and Cindy Sherman; a thick - imexhibitionso floral - patterned diptych by Liang Yuanwei, exhibitionsly featured in the Chinese pavilion at the 54th Biennale di Venezia; Cheng Ran's romantically staged photos of the Hollywood sign, commenting on the role cinema has played in shaping the image of America in the psyche of younger Chinese generations; the American premiere of Sun Xun's 21 Grams, a four - year long animation project reflecting on history, social struggles and dystopia; and Hu Xiangqian's Art Museum, a video presentation of the «collection» of Western artworks that have inspired the artist's creative language but that he's never seen in person or fully understood.