The Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris, France was established on this day – June 9 – in 1947.
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Monthly Archives: June 2024
The Musée National d’Art Moderne
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Like many universities, W.P.I.’s focus has evolved from taking responsibility solely for the academic education of its students to becoming the custodian of individual student wellness. This is, perhaps, the new vanguard: the academic institution as wellness community. It has a slight dystopian ring to it. The all-encompassing beneficent administrative machine, with eyes everywhere. And yet, the circumstances producing these conditions seem to justify it.
~ Jordan Kisner via The New York Times Magazine
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Campus Life at the
University of Brighton
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It is strange with how little notice, good, bad, or indifferent, a man may live and die in London.
~ Charles Dickens
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Midnight Trailer
Candy Cane Lane – Official Trailer
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From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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If we were willing to evaluate things not according to the opinion of the crowd, but according to nature itself, how is it less repulsive to eat, chew, digest, evacuate, and sleep after the fashion of dumb animals, than to enjoy lawful and permitted carnal relations?
~ Desiderius Erasmus
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
~ Henry James
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Campus Life at the
London School of Economics
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The desire not to destroy the palace but to move into it oneself has always been the occupational curse of revolutionaries.
~ Wilfrid Sheed
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