Sentences with phrase «intellectual culture of our times»

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For a long time, Scott Seeley immersed himself in the literary world of Park Slope, Brooklyn, rarely venturing far from the borough and its world of books, culture, food, and intellectuals.

Granted — thinking, inquiry, assertion, and the like are all intellectual processes carried on by humans which, as such, must inevitably have an historical setting by way of place and time, of culture and era.

Not in the form of some «how to» guide or some «five step» program, but, first and foremost, by way of metaphor: «If the state of contemporary Catholic literary culture can best be conveyed by the image of a crumbling, old, immigrant neighborhood, then let me suggest that it is time for Catholic writers and intellectuals to leave the homogeneous, characterless suburbs of the imagination, and move back to the big city — where we can renovate these remarkable districts which have such grace and personality, such strength and tradition.»

There was a time when the Manhattan intellectual and the run of the mill Staten Island evangelical shared a broad common culture, at least in the sense that neither had to be told what was important to the other.

In The Culture of Disbelief, Carter tries to declare independence from another confining stereotype, this time the requirement of religious correctness that applies to persons of all races who do not want the media and intellectual elites to label them as nut cases.

As in the rest of Europe the city's culture was dominated by the avant - garde: an intellectual movement that questioned all forms of knowledge, in particular classical intuitive notions of space and time.

Universally, teachers in the highest - achieving countries are given significant time to work together and develop an intellectual culture of inquiry, high expectations, and best practices.

Her work reveals a deep awareness, both intellectual and sensory, of how the body has been represented over time and across cultures — from antique and Hindu sculpture, to Renaissance drawing and painting, to the work of modern artists such as Henri Matisse, Willem de Kooning, and Pablo Picasso.

The sources from which individual artists drew their theoretical arguments were diverse, and reflected the social and intellectual preoccupations in all areas of Western culture at that time.

Conversation with Jorge Luis Borges, Untitled (Elysium Publications) and ULTRA jet black, for example, gather together a cross section of the design, handcraft, literature, magazines, album covers and artworks into atmospheric pictures of the 1960s and 1970s that incorporate the contrasts of intellectual enlightenment, political protest movement, sexual liberation, interest in foreign cultures and artistic new beginnings that were of importance at that time.

Zeitgast literally means «spirit of the age» or «spirit of the time», and it can be defined as an intellectual fashion that influences the culture of a particular period in time.

The exhibition presents Stettheimer's work in the context of the social and intellectual environment of early twentieth - century New York, exploring the artist's fascinating position as an American modernist whose work exuberantly reflects on the mass culture of her times.

The great features of the Earth — the canyons, mountains and basins — were built this way and owe their grandeur to Deep Time, geology's greatest intellectual gift to human culture.