Sentences with phrase «popular culture of the time»
His actions backed his vision and he shook up the popular culture of the time.
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Smithsonian magazine is, according to its website, «created for modern, well - rounded individuals with diverse interests» and «chronicles the arts, history, sciences and popular culture of the times.»
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The persisting uniformity of popular culture at the time Gladwell was writing helped cool hunters find their subjects.
After a seasonal stint as Editor of popular society blog «Guest of a Guest» in East Hampton, NY, Britta moved back to Minnesota and started working full - time as a Business Analyst for Target Corporation, while quickly adopting Minneapolis's thriving fitness culture.
«There is a small decline in church attendance over time, but not nearly as large as suggested in popular culture, or even by some social scientists,» said University of Nebraska - Lincoln sociologist Philip Schwadel, who conducted the study.
It happens all the time, and yet we Christians rarely notice it; a moment of spiritual yearning in the heart of popular culture.
In When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture, Paul Boyer, a senior historian at the University of Wisconsin, and one of the best in the business, seeks to address the world of secularized academics and journalists who can scarcely imagine, let alone appreciate, the breadth and depth of popular apocalypticism in contemporary America.
The christmas myth as told by western culture, is a jumble of faith, popular culture, earlier festivals, and it is held at a time of year that is clearly not in line with biblical accounts of the birth of Jesus.
God speaks of his people living lives of gracious and generous giving, of prudent and wise decisions (something never very popular in our culture), our time and money and love, our lives, a sowing towards life.
At a time when the European Union, with Britain and France in the forefront, can not bring itself even to admit in its Constitution the pivotal role of Christianity in forming our culture, popular instinct turns to fantasy to fill the void of meaning and transcendence.
Instead it has deepened, spreading a peculiar kind of confusion into our public discourse, political institutions, popular culture, the lives of religious believers, and entire communities of faith — including, at times, the Church herself.
It has inhibited the development of a national church in the sense that France and Spain have national churches religious patterns that are at the same time genuinely Catholic and expressive of the national popular culture.
The spatialization of time (with fantasies of time travel is a familiar way this mistake is found in the philosophy of science as well as popular culture.
It also means being aware of imaginative associations wherever they occur, and often this will involve cultural discomfort for the theologian, for the center of metaphorical renewal of Christian language in our time is often not among Christian poets but in popular culture and in «secular» artists.
Intentional tummy time is necessary in our culture, because of the controversial yet popular «Back to Sleep» campaign and modern practices of placing babies in swings / seats / car seat carriers / jumpers for long periods of time.
The Celtic culture is based in Medieval European history, and the names that came from that period of time have remained popular across the pond.
Even as popular culture extols the virtues of thin, more Americans are plumping out and doing it at younger ages than at any time in recent history.
At the same time, we wish to help students (1) experience authentic processes of science, in particular discussion / debate about experimental data and their interpretation (including «grey areas»), (2) recognize the creativity and open - ended nature of research, and (3) see the diversity of people who undertake research careers (i.e. not just the genius / geeks of popular culture).
«If yoga has the attention of the popular culture right now (and it most certainly does), then Jivamukti is the white - hot center of that focus in New York,» said a glowing 1998 Times piece.
After a seasonal stint as Editor of popular society blog «Guest of a Guest» in East Hampton, NY, Britta moved back to Minnesota and started working full - time as a Business Analyst for Target Corporation, while quickly adopting Minneapolis's thriving fitness culture.
However, because of the stringent laws involved in bringing processed milk products to market, many of the most popular brands of yogurt have very little actual live culture remaining by the time you ingest them.
The long monologue about comic books and Superman's secret identity takes an awfully long time to say something which could have been handled in a couple of lines, without adding anything particularly profound or bringing new insights on the popular culture it is referencing.
Documentary sequel that offers a close - up look into the personal lives of the legendary porn stars who've survived the test of time and influenced popular culture.
The film is very much of its time, trying desperately for «cult» credibility as it is by casting Lemmy, Iggy Pop and that bloke from Fields Of The Nephilim in cameo roles; it also sports a soundtrack by Goth - punk rockers The Ministry and contains the inevitable fractal imagery and pretentions towards artiness that were peculiar to post 80s popular culturof its time, trying desperately for «cult» credibility as it is by casting Lemmy, Iggy Pop and that bloke from Fields Of The Nephilim in cameo roles; it also sports a soundtrack by Goth - punk rockers The Ministry and contains the inevitable fractal imagery and pretentions towards artiness that were peculiar to post 80s popular culturOf The Nephilim in cameo roles; it also sports a soundtrack by Goth - punk rockers The Ministry and contains the inevitable fractal imagery and pretentions towards artiness that were peculiar to post 80s popular culture.
Scorsese's barely contained energy (invigorated by a 60s rock soundtrack that was, at the time, a genuinely creative use of popular music to define the mood, describe the culture, and punctuate the drama) drives the loose plot and his rich sense of place and culture gives it a home.
However, in Far From the Madding Crowd, not only does the highly eccentric Dane revisit a language that has somewhat stained his otherwise accomplished filmography but he perversely provokes himself by undertaking an adaptation of one of the most revered quintessential British novels of all time and a novel that has already been exhausted by adaptations across the board in popular culture.
Zoolander and the gang have mostly ossified into pullstring See»n Says, though to encore the greatest hits of a fifteen - year - old movie whose footprint on popular culture has long since dissipated is to masturbate, really, and the celebrity cameos — about the same number as the previous film's, but much more elaborately integrated this time around — feel no less onanistic.
This year's recipient of the Ruby Dee Life Achievement for humanitarian career achievement has been influencing popular culture for over three decades, five - time Black Reel Award nominee and Black Reel Award - winning producer, Oprah Winfrey.
Before descending into an MGM parade of studio propaganda, it captures the very spirit of this fascinating — and never to be repeated — time period in popular culture.
In secondary education... we are beset by a peculiar paradox: in our complex industrial society there is increasingly more to learn, and formal education is ever more important in shaping one's life chances; at the same time, there is coming to be more and more an independent «society of adolescents,» an adolescent culture which shows little interest in education and focuses the attention of teenagers on cars, dates, sports, popular music, and other matters just as unrelated to school.
Nancy Willard points out that that can lead to an «excessive amount of time spent on entertainment and other popular culture sites compared to a significant lack of time spent on high quality sites.»
At the same time, when you look at it and see the outline of the Panamera which is so popular and has really revolutionized Porsche in our culture and on the roads today.
THE MISSING YEARS FROM THE GREATEST CRIME SAGA OF ALL TIME Thirty - five years ago, Mario Puzo's great American tale, The Godfather, was published, and popular culture was indelibly changed.
I teach popular culture and humanities courses — the kinds of classes that a lot of people might think are impractical, indulgent, or a waste of precious time.
For retirees, this means they will have both freedom and simplicity, plus an abundance of affordable popular culture to help them fill all that time.
The Highlights of San Juan Accessible Shore Excursion is a great opportunity to see all the popular sites and attractions during your time in the captivating city of Puerto Rico that is rich in beauty, culture, and history.
City breaks are always popular at this time of year for families looking to experience different cultures and architecture.
«Shakespeare Wrote Hits» is the theme of GCAP 2014, and looks set to ignite debate around the time - hallowed tradition of game developers about the legitimacy of popular culture, while at the same time helping developers do precisely what anyone working in a nascent (if it can so be called) medium must in order to «claim legitimacy»: create great works.
Contrary to popular belief, the system of patriarchy has not existed for all of history across all time and all cultures.
Considering the enduring popularity of police procedurals and legal dramas in popular culture, the formula behind Capcom's Ace Attorney might read like a sure - fire money - maker — a game where you play as a rookie defense attorney named Phoenix Wright who shields his obviously innocent clients from the wrath of increasingly aggressive prosecutors by pointing out the holes in the state's case, inevitably producing the real culprit just in the nick of time.
Michael Jackson, one of the most widely beloved entertainers and the most popular global icons of all time, leaves an indelible imprint on popular music and culture.
Widely regarded as one of the most influential artists of our time, Mike Kelley (1954 - 2012) produced a body of deeply innovative work mining American popular culture and both modernist and alternati
Known for his carefully constructed paintings that move effortlessly between abstraction and figuration, the imagined and the real, this new body of work sees de Balincourt moving away from direct references to current social, political or popular culture, and instead depicting a world in which indications of specific place or time are absent.
At this time there was a general shift from the gestural abstraction of the Abstract Expressionists to imagery drawn from popular, commercial culture.
Some of Lichenstein's greatest works evolved from imagery drawn from popular culture: advertising images, war - time comics, and pin - up portraits, as well as traditional painting genres such as landscapes, still lifes, and interiors.
Testifying to the breadth of the artist's practice, the exhibition include landscapes, portraits and still lifes, resplendent in references to history, myth and popular culture from across and through time.
As the western United States was developed, he endeavored to record the vanishing cultures of the land's original inhabitants, creating a body of work that at the time defined the country's popular vision of Native American culture.
Since his emergence at that time, Jeff Koons has blended the concerns and methods of Pop, Conceptual, and appropriation art with craft - making and popular culture to create his own unique iconography, often controversial and always engaging.
At the same time, as Chris Stephens (Head of Displays, and Lead Curator of Modern British Art, Tate) has acknowledged, his art «challenged and dispensed with the values at the heart of the American painting», reflecting a new spirit of engagement with popular culture and the mass media.
Transformation episode details: Whether observing and satirizing society or reinventing icons of literature, art history, and popular culture, the artists featured in Transformation capture the sensibilities of our age while at times inhabiting the characters they have created.