Sentences with phrase «latter twentieth century»
In response to this new and, it seems, contrivedly obscure eclogue, Donald Hall writes, «When in the future flustered doctoral students confuse Auden and Austen, when Larkin becomes a small figure in the shadow of Hardy, Geoffrey Hill will remain the monumental English poet of the latter twentieth century.»
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Russian women, despite their former revolutionary fervor, typically receive flowers and chocolates from their significant others, having traded Soviet war songs for romantic dinners in the latter part of the twentieth century.
Serious Jewish scholars abound in this latter part of the twentieth century.
Martyrs and Martyrologies edited by Diana Wood Blackwell, 497 pages, $ 64.95 The story of Christian martyrs of the twentieth century is yet to be told, and one of the merits of this collection of learned essays, consisting of papers read at the Summer 1992 and Winter 1993 meetings of the Ecclesiastical History Society, is that they not only deal with early, medieval, and early - modern martyrs (and ideas about martyrdom), but include several original essays on latter - day martyrs.
In the latter decades of the twentieth century, the phrase liberation theology often has been used synonymously with Latin American liberation theology.
One could almost tell the story of American public theology during the latter half of the twentieth century through the prism of Williams's scholarship and activism.
In addition to Gilson's discoveries, the latter half of the twentieth century has seen further development of a distinctive metaphysics of the person and of the relationality implicit in the metaphysics of St. Thomas.
During the latter decades of the twentieth century process theology has itself been in process, and it has become more than Whiteheadian theology.
You would expect it to contain a passage like, «In the latter half of the twentieth century, humankind will develop a globally linked system of computers â $ «the principles of which I set forth in Leviticus â $ «and this system shall be called the Internet.»
In a recent appraisal of religion in twentieth century America, Schneider suggests a distinction between movements and bodies, the former dynamic, the latter static organizations.
At first, globalization seemed perilously close to being Europeanization, but in the latter half of the twentieth century European supremacy has been modified, partly by the spread of Indian, Chinese and Japanese people, and partly because some of the colonized peoples took the opportunity of their imperial citizenship to settle in Europe.
It had made vast gains through immigration in the latter part of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and had consolidated its gains with its outstanding organizational and administrative work.
It is arguable that, had Einstein known a metaphysics more favorable to quantum physics than the Spinozism and other similar doctrines influencing him, he might not have spent the latter decades of his life vainly attempting to recover the absolute «incarnate reason» of classical causality which had been made irrelevant by twentieth - century discoveries, including his own.
In Christian America, most Jews believed, at least in the latter half of the twentieth century, that the more secular the society the safer it is for Jews.
This is chiefly because in the latter part of the twentieth century, and led by liberation theologians, we have come to view science sociologically.
In the latter part of the twentieth century we have come to prize cultural diversity.
The greatest gulf I identified between Wesley and twentieth - century liberal Wesleyans was the loss of strong conviction on the part of the latter.
The following quotation from his writings shows that he rejected this latter form of epistemology that had resurfaced in the twentieth century under the guise of Transcendental Thomism, because he was acutely aware that this path led at least to a blurring of the distinction between nature and grace if not to pantheism: «What we must not do -LSB-...] is to relate God as «ground of being» to the very inner substance and core of the soul as in some way... a part or aspect of the creature's being.»
In the latter part of the nineteenth century and in the early part of the twentieth century, rural Iberia Parish was home to the McIlhenny Company; B.F. Trappey & Sons (a former McIlhenny employee) who began manufacturing Louisiana Hot Sauce, Red Devil Cayenne Pepper Sauce and Bull Louisiana Hot Sauce in 1898; and Franks Original RedHot Cayenne Pepper Sauce where pepper farmer Adam Estilette partnered with Jacob Frank in New Iberia in 1920.
That Mrs. Thatcher was an ardent admirer of Gladstone is no secret, and Simon Heffer has gone as far as to argue that she is best understood as a latter - day champion of Gladstonian liberalism, rejecting many of the values that had come to be associated with Toryism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, such as paternalism and protectionism.
The federal government has played a critical role in fostering science and technological innovation, particularly in the latter half of the twentieth century, and the American people and our economy have benefited tremendously from those public investments.
«Although wheat yields in the UK and World increased dramatically in the latter half of the twentieth century, increases this century have proved elusive.
With the discovery during the latter half of the twentieth century of more objects within the solar system and large objects around other stars, dispute arose over what should constitute a planet.
The discovery of deep sea hot springs and an abundance of microbes in the subseafloor are among the most remarkable scientific findings in Earth science during the latter half of the twentieth century, and have now become a powerful motivation for research and exploration, according to the National Science Foundation, a major funder of this work.
Only within the latter half of the twentieth century has the importance of the mineral zinc in human physiology been established.
Animal fats are an important source of fat - soluble vitamins and were an important part of traditional diets associated with good health, and were replaced by refined foods during the nutritional transition to modern foods documented by Weston Price and during the latter half of the twentieth century in the United States and other industrialized countries after the advent of the diet - heart hypothesis.
The women of the latter half of the twentieth century had to fight for their equality in a male - predominating world more than any other generation.
This anthology film (a sequel of sorts to the 1996 film about abortion) focuses on lesbian couples residing in the same house over the latter half of the twentieth century, featuring Vanessa Redgrave, Michelle Williams and Ellen DeGeneres among others.
For much of the latter half of the twentieth century, the politics of American education was rightly interpreted in racial terms.
During the latter part of the twentieth century, as we've thought about reform solely in schools, solely in terms of programs, we've left out the supports we need to take it to scale.
Somatics is a relatively young field of research, dating from the latter part of the twentieth century.
AT THE HEIGHT of the Abstract Expressionist movement, which has been referred to as the «Triumph of American Painting,» 1 a somewhat younger generation of painters, while interested in and often respectful of their predecessors, formed the conviction that an art based on the depiction of the natural world could make a serious and ambitious statement in the latter part of the Twentieth Century.
Other strengths of the twentieth - century collection include: sixty works by members of the Ash Can School; significant representation by early modernists such as Alfred Maurer, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Max Weber; important examples by the Precisionists Charles Demuth, Charles Sheeler, Preston Dickinson and Ralston Crawford; a good showing by the American Scene painters Charles Burchfield and Edward Hopper; a broad spectrum of work by the Social Realists Ben Shahn, Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence and Jack Levine; and ambitious examples of Regionalist painting by Grant Wood, John Steuart Curry and Thomas Hart Benton, notably the latter's celebrated five - panel mural, The Arts of Life in America (1932).
Reductive practices, ideas, visions, distillations, variations, hybrids, de-constructions, formations, experiments and tendencies — along with simple geometry — have all partially informed the production of serious art from the latter half of the Twentieth Century to today.
Robert Mapplethorpe's work is widely collected, and he is considered by many art scholars to be among the most important American photographers of the latter half of the twentieth century.
Of the latter two, which are included in the exhibition, Smoke is a study for a much larger version that was shown in the atrium of the Corcoran Museum of Art in Washington, D.C., and eventually became part of a triology of large - scale public sculptures that included Smog (1969 - 70), and Smug (1973)-- three of the most profound and alluring works of public sculpture made in the history of twentieth century art.
Located in the heart of St. James's at 22 Mason's Yard, SW1 the gallery offers a diverse collection of British and International Modern paintings and sculpture from the latter half of the Twentieth Century with a particular emphasis on Post-War British Art.
E. John Bullard's collection of American Studio Pottery from the latter half of the twentieth century is on display through July 8th.
It is perhaps testament to Still's art that, despite his eschewing of the growing commerciality of the art world, his work became among some of the most powerful and important paintings produced in the latter part of the twentieth century.
Most of the paintings on view were completed in the latter part of the twentieth century.
The Tantric Way highlights the parallels between Tantric art and the early twentieth - century modernist abstractions of Paul Klee, Piet Mondrian, Constantin Brancusi and Robert Delaunay, as well as the affinities between the post-war American painters Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman and the work of Indian artist Biren De.22 The latter was one of the leading members of a group of «neo-Tantric» artists newly promoted by New Delhi gallerist Virendra Kumar Jain, the older brother of Tantra Art's publisher, Ravi Kumar.23
The latter three belonged to the rebellious group of early twentieth - century artists in New York known as «The Eight,» who opposed the more conservative, academic tastes of the National Academy of Design.
By demonstrating the independence of dance from music and incorporating non-western thinking and non-programmed foundations, such as chance, in their art, Cage and Cunningham laid groundwork for scores of artists in the latter half of the twentieth century.
Although Jess was an influential artistic figure throughout the latter half of the twentieth century, he often deliberately worked against dominant artistic trends.
While this term is often associated with American painting, specifically Abstract Expressionism and Color Field painting, Declaring Space addresses this concept from an international viewpoint, blurring national labels for a set of spatial themes that were evoked in abstract art in the latter half of the twentieth century, where the boundaries of traditional pictorial space were crossed and a new realm of abstract theater was engaged.
The pairing characterises how divergent attitudes to making art had become in the latter half of the twentieth century, and how attempts to map the seemingly disparate artistic trajectories can reap revealing parallels in artistic thought.
The building was purpose - built as the headquarters of this important Black - owned publishing company, made famous by its Jet and Ebony magazine titles as well as by its role as a leading arbiter of African American taste and culture during the latter half of the twentieth century.
With his use of this visual medium and his stance as a critical, conceptual photographer and artist, he created what we might call a new photographic image of the United States in the latter half of the twentieth century.
a nourishing journey through the latter half of the twentieth century via the mind of a true multi-media visionary....
Indeed, it was the presence of artistic opportunities in cities such as New York that had allowed the collectors» vision to flourish throughout the latter half of the twentieth century.