| 单词 | civilization |
| 例句 | Might a civilization composed of essentially immortal beings consider interstellar exploration fundamentally childish? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And then the village, where the natives receive her as an emissary of the Lord, an instrument of civilization. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z When the world assembled here, on this elevated ground overlooking Berlin, in 1936, it would behold the future not just of Germany but of Western civilization. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z This is a Christian country in a Christian civilization. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The author must understand from firsthand experience a range of human societies, from hunter-gatherer societies to modern space-age civilizations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Just as Isaac had predicted, the landscape was happily romping away from civilization. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Today we are again seeking messages from an ancient and exotic civilization, this time hidden from us not only in time but also in space. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d sleep deep in woods tonight, out of civilization, the riskiest part of the trip behind him. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z We live in a sea of images conveying the culture and learning of modern civilization. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Within a galaxy are stars and worlds and, it maybe, a proliferation of living things and intelligent beings and spacefaring civilizations. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Prescriptivists uphold standards of excellence and a respect for the best of our civilization, and are a bulwark against relativism, vulgar populism, and the dumbing down of literate culture. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Conceivably two expanding civilizations with different planetary requirements would ignore each other, their filigree patterns of expansion intertwining, but not conflicting. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Every now and then we stumble on a major civilization, such as the ancient culture of Ebla, which flourished only a few millennia ago and about which we knew nothing. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z My granddaughter once asked me how I managed to live alone for so long far removed from civilization. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Two years after writing these words, Cortes utterly destroyed Tenochtitlan along with the rest of the Aztec civilization. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Totems still guarded the top of a hill, ghosts of an older civilization. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z For a more advanced civilization, the positions are, of course, reversed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Convinced of the essential uselessness of formalized education, he had retreated from civilization. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z We define an advanced civilization as one capable of radio astronomy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They still weren’t close to any sort of civilization, let alone a physician. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Another sign that civilization was going straight down the tubes. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z For the men who needed to believe themselves white, the bodies were the key to a social club, and the right to break the bodies was the mark of civilization. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The leading figures in this revolution were men with Greek names, largely unfamiliar to us today, but the truest pioneers in the development of our civilization and our humanity. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Indians had expanded their Neolithic revolutions to create a panoply of diverse civilizations across the hemisphere. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Perhaps science was stillborn in Indian, Mayan and Aztec civilizations for the same reason it declined in Ionia, the pervasiveness of the slave economy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There the ways of civilization prevailed, and the meals in this hospital were found to contain as much DDT as those in the most populous city. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z We do not expect an advanced technical civilization on any other planet in our solar system. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I had thought that I must mirror the outside world, create a carbon copy of white claims to civilization. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z This carving, done with a pencil dug many times into the worn varnish of the desk, has the pathos of all vanished civilizations. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z If there are millions of civilizations distributed more or less randomly through the Galaxy, the distance to the nearest is about two hundred light-years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Millions of years ago, he said, rats seemed to be ahead of all the other animals, seemed to be making a civilization of their own. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Most radar transmissions are for military purposes; they scan the skies in constant fear of a massive launch of missiles with nuclear warheads, an augury fifteen minutes early of the end of human civilization. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The supernatural link between aesthetics, ratios, and the universe became one of the central and long-lasting tenets of Western civilization. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The Sumerians put these inventions together, added writing, and in the third millennium B. C. created the first great civilization. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He did not understand our civilization, and knew no better than to try to be too decent for the degradation of jealousy. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The University and Imre are the hearts of understanding and art, the strongest of the four corners of civilization. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The elevator attendant claims they have the fastest elevators in Western civilization. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z To communicate with other civilizations, we require a method adequate not merely for interplanetary distances but for interstellar distances. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There may be severe impediments to the evolution of a technical civilization. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z City- made clothes were too valuable to waste on someone going back to civilization. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Upon Messner’s return to civilization, his ascent was widely lauded as the greatest mountaineering feat of all time. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Unlike many other cultures, the Ionians were at the crossroads of civilizations, not at one of the centers. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He seemed out of place in a white man’s civilization. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The principal energy sources of our present industrial civilization are the so-called fossil fuels. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But things got even worse at Fifty-seventh Street, because there civilization began again. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Since the school had links with many of the great civilizations of Asia, the Mediterranean, and Europe, word of sugar and the experience of tasting its special sweetness began to spread. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I read about the ancient Egyptians, the Greeks and Romans, and the Dark Ages, when the old civilizations fell apart and the only people who could read and write were the monks. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z “Do you think that the civilizations of two planets can progress at the same rate and evolve in the same way, Hinkston?” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “It moves in the same way that Olympus moves. It always exists on the edges of civilization. But the fact that it is here, on this mountain, is not good.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Such scientific methods, Hoover proclaimed, would assist “the guardians of civilization in the face of the common danger.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “It is impossible to found a civilization on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I know how far it is back to civilization, if you could even call it civilization anymore. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Look at the artifacts being discovered there, that are proving over and over again, how the black man had great, fine, sensitive civilizations before the white man was out of the caves. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z There is something irresistible about the discovery of even a token, perhaps a complex inscription, but, best by far, a key to the understanding of an alien and exotic civilization. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Would those be the same black kings who birthed all of civilization? Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Flushed with his impassioned gibberish he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civilization. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z However, it has been suggested that it might be possible for an advanced civilization to keep a wormhole open. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z You might even say they are the source of it, or at least, they are tied so tighdy to it that they couldn’t possibly fade, not unless all of Western civilization were obliterated. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z It was an unyielding homage to ancient Greece and Imperial Rome, the birthing grounds of civilization. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The home planet of an emerging technical civilization, struggling to avoid self-destruction. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Somehow, though, he neglected to arrange for the pilot to fly him back to civilization at summers end, and it cost McCunn his life. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The Near East became the cradle of civilization: to be civilized, after all, means to live as a citizen, a town dweller. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It was as if the entire civilization had undergone some self-inflicted brain surgery, and most of its memories, discoveries, ideas and passions were extinguished irrevocably. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It is only after 200,000 other worlds have been colonized that, in the usual course of things, our solar system would be accidentally discovered to harbor an indigenous civilization. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I, David Lightman, a teenage computer geek from suburban Seattle, had single-handedly prevented the end of human civilization. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z This is a very powerful conclusion and is in no way based on the idiosyncrasies of a particular civilization. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, space being spacious, the average distance between any two of these civilizations is reckoned to be at least two hundred light-years, which is a great deal more than merely saying it makes it sound. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “Besides, I think you’ve had enough of civilization for a while.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z I remember, for instance, books such as Will Durant’s story of Oriental civilization, and Mahatma Gandhi’s accounts of the stmggle to drive the British out of India. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z At first Bell and her supervisor, Antony Hewish, thought they might have made contact with an alien civilization in the galaxy! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “One more week! Soon we’ll be living in civilization! Can you believe it?” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Practically every week, we read about some great new find from Africa’s lost civilizations. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. D. C. Taylor, a frequent visitor to the fair, called Krupp’s biggest gun “a fearful hideous thing, breathing of blood and carnage, a triumph of barbarism crouching amid the world’s triumphs of civilization.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It won’t help much with your worry, you know, about civilization ending and stuff. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z No civilization can possibly survive to an interstellar space- faring phase unless it limits its numbers. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z If an advanced civilization were to arrive in our solar system, there would be nothing whatever we could do about it. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Toynbee was especially interested in the internal dynamics of 23 advanced civilizations, of which 22 were literate and 19 were Eurasian. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Imagine a huge galactic computer, a repository, more or less up-to-date, of information on the nature and activities of all the civilizations in the Milky Way Galaxy, a great library of life in the Cosmos. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The court had “knowledge of the world” now: it had the fruits of achievement, civilization, savoir-vivre, gossip, fashion, malice, and the broad mind of scandal. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This alone, quite apart from the contents of the message, provides a powerful justification for the search for other civilizations. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “We are turning our backs upon the fairest dream of civilization and are about to consign it to the dust,” Barrows read. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Because intensive agriculture has been regarded a prerequisite for complex societies, it has long been claimed that civilizations can arise only in such farm-friendly places. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Mindspeech was the only thing I had to give Estraven, out of all my civilization, my alien reality in which he was, so profoundly interested. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “Come now, Percy. What you call ‘Western civilization.’ The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Rome had collapsed, and Western civilization seemed but a shadow of Rome’s past glory. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Nothing of the galaxies, stars, planets, lifeforms or civilizations evolved in the previous incarnation of the universe oozes into the cusp, flutters past the Big Bang, to be known in our present universe. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The road angles down the steep hill and into a tiny town, the last outpost of civilization before the mount. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z A plan that could topple civilizations and plunge the planet into a cross-species war. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z If civilizations tend to destroy themselves soon after reaching a technological phase, there might be no one for us to talk with but ourselves. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The evil of daily life here is indescribable, and if this is civilization then it is beyond the capacity of my smallish brain to imagine the evil of a place like Natzweiler-Struthof. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Each civilization had its own term for the People, but they were undoubtedly members of the same hidden family. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The only thing that we can’t change is that the game has to have an ancient civilization theme. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z If they were not Maya, the implication was that someone else had launched the project of civilization in Mesoamerica. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z You find in your Western civilization that when a man’s wife’s physical beauty fails, she loses her attraction. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z If a great many years ago an advanced interstellar spacefaring civilization emerged 200 light-years away, it would have no reason to think there was something special about the Earth unless it had been here already. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Their host, an antiquarian architect, had never truckled under to modern civilization and kept his house free of gas and electricity. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Conversely, any civilization that engages in serious interstellar exploration and colonization must have exercised zero population growth or something very close to it for many generations. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And on some small fraction of worlds there may develop intelligences and civilizations more advanced than our own. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Some technical civilization must be the first to emerge in the history of the Galaxy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z By night it creeps from its lair and steals toward the settlements of civilization! Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “Even during time of war, we must follow the rules of propriety and civilization.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z When early civilizations started pressing reeds to clay tablets, carving figures in stone, and daubing ink on parchment and on papyrus, number systems had already been well-established. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z We were given a small amount of water, which helped, but we were quite thirsty when we were finally “rescued” and returned to civilization, which in this case turned out to be Beno, Nevada. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But a civilization with a low population growth rate will take a long time to colonize many worlds, even if the strictures on rapid population growth are eased after reaching some lush Eden. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I admired the graceful gold-and-pink rose pattern on the translucent bone china and figured that some of the trappings of civilization weren’t so bad after all. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Even modern efforts to implant civilization in the South American tropical forest have met with defeat, or survive only with constant assistance from the outside. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z As to when I shall visit civilization, it will not be soon, I think. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It seems unfair that an entire civilization could vanish from the universe and leave no trace behind, while Jesse lingers on. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z There are not yet any obvious signs of extraterrestrial intelligence and this makes us wonder whether civilizations like ours always rush implacably, headlong, toward self-destruction. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Its roots stretch back to the dawn of mathematics, in the time thousands of years before the first civilization, long before humans could read and write. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The collected knowledge, art, and amusements of all human civilization were there, waiting for me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z In thus describing China’s seminal role in East Asian civilization, we should not exaggerate. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Her education had taught her how to be an enlightened mother and wife, able to contribute to the civilization—or in her case, the civilizing—of her community. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z An emerging technical civilization, after exploring its home planetary system and developing interstellar spaceflight, would slowly and tentatively begin exploring the nearby stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “A pleasant place for the world to hide from its problems while human civilization slowly collapses, primarily due to neglect.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “I hate it. Not history—history’s pretty cool—just the way they cram two thousand years of human civilization into a five-month class.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z In the same way, a rat civilization would probably never have built skyscrapers, since rats prefer to live underground. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z “Say goodbye to civilization,” says Dylan, pointing right. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z We would probably have gone on and discussed the war and agreed that it was in reality a calamity for civilization, and perhaps would have been better avoided. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z The second is the Peruvian littoral, home of a much older civilization that has come to light only in the twenty-first century.* 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He was a thing of the wild, come in from the wild to sit by John Thornton’s fire, rather than a dog of the soft Southland stamped with the marks of generations of civilization. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z The oil drum she had seen when the skua flew over marked the beginning of civilization and the end of the wilderness. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z We were black, beyond the visible spectrum, beyond civilization. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Multiplying these factors together, we find N.fpnefififc — 1 x 109, a billion planets on which technical civilizations have arisen at least once. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Griffith presented the Klan as crusaders for white civilization itself, and as one of the noblest forces in American history. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Only once before in our history was there the promise of a brilliant scientific civilization. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to learn more about where my people came from, where I came from, and all the great contributions Black people had made to American civilization and society. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Relativistic spaceflight makes the universe accessible to advanced civilizations, but only to those who go on the journey. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z An extraterrestrial civilization monitoring the radio emission from Earth and receiving such signals could not fail to conclude that something interesting had been happening here lately. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Their civilization was initially centered in what is now northern Guatemala and in Tabasco, a state in present-day Mexico. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z “So you don’t much like civilization, Mr. Savage,” he said. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z As former US vice president Al Gore has stated, “The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more...the future of human civilization is at stake.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z And with it appeared the Olmec, Mesoamerica’s first great civilization. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Above all, I learned how to look after myself in a way that no young person can ever do by staying in civilization. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z “His field of study went back much further than you’d expect, that’s all. He was looking for remains of civilizations from twenty, thirty thousand years ago,” the Pole replied. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A few decades ago, many researchers would have included jump- starting Andean civilization on the honor roll of Mesoamerican accomplishments. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Roy was dazzled by the wondrous quiet, the bushy old mangroves sealing off the place from the honking and hammering of civilization. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z America believes itself exceptional, the greatest and noblest nation ever to exist, a lone champion standing between the white city of democracy and the terrorists, despots, barbarians, and other enemies of civilization. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The more I flipped on, the more I knew: Morgenstern wasn’t writing any children’s book; he was writing a kind of satiric history of his country and the decline of the monarchy in Western civilization. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Even these might be sorted out and pieced together by an advanced civilization on a planet of a nearby star. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was in the Eastern Mediterranean that African, Asian, and European civilizations, including the great cultures of Egypt and Mesopotamia, met and cross-fertilized in a vigorous and heady confrontation of prejudices, languages, ideas and gods. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I spent our year in Kilanga thinking of civilization as lying downstream from us, since that was the way the boats went to Banningville. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Protect your women: in a civilization that emasculates the male and abuses the female, and in which, moreover, the male is forced to depend on the female’s bread-winning power. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Any reader steeped in the history of Western civilization would be forgiven for assuming that African food production began in ancient Egypt’s Nile Valley, land of the pharaohs and pyramids. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Earth has harbored a technical civilization characterized by radio astronomy for only a few decades out of a lifetime of a few billion years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A conservative minority saw the mathematical race mixing as the twilight of their civilization. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Therefore, my size itself is a safeguard against my ever sinking too low within the structure of our civilization. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, you better not give me away. I have a scout in civilization who follows all these stories.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The world, the real one, was civilization secured and ruled by savage means. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z We believe there is a common language that all technical civilizations, no matter how different, must have. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Trying to extinguish the spark of the rest—the merely incorrigible, those holding on to civilization by a thread—itself feels like a monstrosity. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Egyptian civilization has long been regarded as the most rigid and conservative ever. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Hence the package that worked well in the latter valleys also worked well enough in the Nile Valley to trigger the spectacular rise of indigenous Egyptian civilization. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Hab is my only hint of civilization, and seeing it disappear made me way more uncomfortable than I like to admit. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He is a person living in a world where civilization has made an entry, and of course he has a standard of right and wrong. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z In those miles, along the twisted roads beside the steep mountain, I feared that I would never get back to America, civilization, English and wide streets again. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m just glad you two made it back to civilization,” Shay said softly, holding on tight “And I’m not sorry about what happened. If that makes you feel any better.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The idea that European American “civilization” is superior to those of the American Indians and of the Africans who were enslaved for economic gain is called white supremacy. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z And in this way a civilization might slowly wend its way like a vine among the worlds. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z If they had stayed ahead, if they had gone on and developed a real civilization—what would it have been like? Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z As Martin put it to me, Maya civilization indeed bore striking similarities to that of ancient Greece. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Roger's arm was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z We talked and argued and considered, and we remembered our evenings in the library at the Boniface Estate when we had wondered what a rat civilization would be like. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z It seems that nearly every advance in our civilization has some undesirable side effects. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z One month and hundreds of miles later, on January 16, 1914, the expedition arrived at Tapirapuã, the headquarters of the Telegraphic Commission and the last outpost of civilization. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z When, for example, he posed the rhetorical question, “Is survival possible when civilization reverts to the law of the jungle?” his devoted listeners recognized the reference to Africa and African Americans. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z By our more optimistic estimates, one of them is the site of an advanced civilization. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z If the nearest civilization is younger than this, they would not have reached us yet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The Dutch burgers, ambassadors and sea captains stood wide- eyed in amazement, face to face with another civilization in the Imperial City of Peking.' Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “The more we keep to civilization, the more likely that people will be civilized,” he says. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z For me, civilization was usually Houston, Texas, but I discovered that there were plenty of trips away from Houston, in addition to the jungle and desert. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Whole civilizations of motes are caught in the thick stripes of light beaming down from two high windows. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z According to the estimates of this chapter, one of them is the sun of a civilization more advanced than ours. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The boy was fascinated by Fourier’s collection of Egyptian artifacts, collected during the Napoleonic expedition where he had been responsible for cataloging the astronomical monuments of that ancient civilization. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z India’s growth was eclipsed by another Eastern civilization. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Listen to him talk about the Abruzzi. There’s more snow there than here. He doesn’t want to see peasants. Let him go to centres of culture and civilization.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z We are at the earliest stages of our radio search for other civilizations in space. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We’re only down in the aqueduct for half an hour before we emerge and follow a foothill road far enough from civilization to be beyond most roadblocks. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z At each such division, the number shrinks colossally–yet even with the most conservative inputs the number of advanced civilizations just in the Milky Way always works out to be somewhere in the millions. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I followed one of the walkways and explored the skeletal remains of a forgotten civilization. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Or perhaps a civilization unimaginably more advanced than ours will be able to decipher such recorded thoughts and feelings and appreciate our efforts to share ourselves with them. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Certainly, outlawing barbaric punishments was evidence of progress in penal practice, and perhaps of progress in American civilization as well. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I have no idea where I am and how to get back to civilization. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z First, always “religiously,” he branded “heathen” and “pagan” labels upon ancient non-white cultures and civilizations. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “What time is it?” she asked, testing what kinds of minds they had, raised away from civilization. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps an agrarian or pastoral civilization, with less culture and less people would be better. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Trub nods and says, “I expect so. Africa’s called the cradle of civilization. Know why?” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z Who was I, after all, but some comic Queequeg, holding close to my breast a reliquary containing the white powder of a dead European civilization? Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Feelings of contempt born of inchoate, unacknowledged fear—civilization’s fear of nature, men’s fear of women, power’s fear of powerlessness. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “If circumstances were different, we’d welcome you with open arms. But as it stands, our entire civilization and way of life are in danger of being snuffed out. So it’s rather bad timing, you see.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z And indeed, the invention of writing was an early accomplishment of the “historic” civilizations of Mesopotamia and Egypt. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It is life at a peak of some kind of civilization. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “But the gods can’t die now, right? I mean, as long as Western civilization is alive, they’re alive. So . . . even if I failed, nothing could happen so bad it would mess up everything, right?” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The black man, original man, built great empires and civilizations and cultures while the white man was still living on all fours in caves. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z As her eyes followed it, they came to rest on an oil drum, the signpost of American civilization in the North. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He decided it was time to bring a bit of civilization to this outpost hidden halfway between the mountains and the sea. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Advanced civilizations may have graduated far beyond radio for their own communications. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Your Honor, consider the mere physical aspect of our civilization. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “What’s the first thing you’re going to do when you get home?” she asked him on one of their endless days trekking through the snow, hoping to find some sign of civilization. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Since its homeland includes the Fertile Crescent, the cradle of Western civilization and animal domestication, ancient peoples must have experimented extensively with onagers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “This heralds a return to civilization and order.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The Egyptian civilization’s lack of zero was bad for the calendar and bad for the future of Western mathematics. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Yes, and civilization is sterilization,” Bernard went on, concluding on a tone of irony the second hypnopsdic lesson in elementary hygiene. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Western civilization eventually had to make a choice between Aristotle and the Bible, which says that the finite universe sprang forth from the void and prophesies its ultimate destruction. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z On the opposite side of the road, grassy hills stretched to the horizon, empty of civilization except for one darkened convenience store at the top of the nearest rise. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z At the beginning of this universe, there were no galaxies, stars or planets, no life or civilizations, merely a uniform, radiant fireball filling all of space. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In the early sixteenth century a high civilization flourished in central Mexico. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I shall tell them that we have abandoned the fight for civilization! Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Upon arrival he discovered that oil-company geologists, the only scientists in the area, believed the Beni was thick with the remains of an unknown civilization. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z We picked our way down to the beach, where what seemed to be an entire civilization of birds were flapping and screeching and fishing in tide pools. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z A half mile down the road there was a clearing in the trees and a drive—a hint of civilization—before the road curved away invitingly. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “How is your famous civilization going? Might for Right? You mustn’t forget I have been away a year.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Indigenous civilizations were based on advanced agriculture and well-developed systems of governance. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Almost entirely by themselves for thousands of years, these two centers of civilization were so different that researchers today have difficulty finding a conceptual vocabulary that applies to both. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “There’s an idea that before the Goddess arrived, there was life—an ancient civilization, but somehow, they disappeared. Perhaps through that Wyrdgate thing. Ruins exist—ruins too old to be of Fae making.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Even at 1 percent or a tenth of a percent of the speed of light, beings from nearby civilizations could have come during the tenure of humanity on Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The calculation was not made with reference to vast historical or geological shifts—the fall of civilizations, the erosion of mountains. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “The whole of human civilization as we know it,” Chacko told the twins, “began only two hours ago in the Earth Woman’s life. As long as it takes us to drive from Ayemenem to Cochin.” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z How the whole of human civilization is nothing more than a mosquito’s annoying buzz to the universe. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Like the Eurasian centers of civilization, Mesoamerica and the Andes were places where complex, long-lasting cultural traditions began. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z From books, the Spaniards knew of many contemporary civilizations remote from Europe, and about several thousand years of European history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They will know that a backward civilization like ours, wishing to receive messages from the skies, is likely to turn first to radio technology. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps, to give you a not unfamiliar example, our entire technical civilization has created more unhappiness and misery than it has removed. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z I am not condemning boys’ clubs and ping-pong as such; but these little stopgaps were utterly inadequate to fill up the centuries-long chasm of emptiness which American civilization had created in these Biggers. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The first written human stories were about fairies, suggesting that their civilization predated man’s own. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Ice cubes don’t wipe out civilizations with bursts of gamma rays, though following the then-accepted rules of physics led inexorably to that conclusion. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The four travelers were returned to the sights and sounds and smells of civilization. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “There are no longer barbarians to overthrow civilization.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z It knew that the earth goddess intended on razing all human civilization, and this city, which had stood for thousands of years, was saying back to her: You wanna dissolve this city, Dirt Face? The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z At the first signs of civilization, we veered off the road and stopped at an old gas station just south of Monclova. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Especially because we, new to radio astronomy, must be comparatively backward, and the transmitting civilization advanced, it makes more sense for us to listen than to send. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The little woman’s gray eyes fastened shrewdly on Byerley, “Barbarians—the fall of civilization—possible failure of the Machine. Your thought processes are very transparent, monsieur.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Because we will share scientific and mathematical insights with any other civilization, I believe that understanding the interstellar message will be the easiest part of the problem. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It is pointless to worry about the possible malevolent intentions of an advanced civilization with whom we might make contact. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Technical civilizations, canal builders, might be easy to detect. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And when I locate civilization again, people will ask, “How did you survive, Valencia?” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z All in all, he seems a beast utterly untouched by the softening influences of modern civilization. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z In the pipes and under the cypress tree there had been no room for furniture and the little niceties which are not only the diagnoses but the boundaries of our civilization. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The Renaissance was the time when Western Europeans lost their awe of the Ancients and realized that they had as much to contribute to civilization and society as the Greeks and Romans had contributed. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z What percentage of the lifetime of a planet is marked by a technical civilization? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It seems fairly clear that if self-destruction is not the overwhelmingly preponderant fate of galactic civilizations, then the sky is softly humming with messages from the stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The only sign of civilization is the track, which rests on a raised bed of gravel. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z We are fortunate: we are alive; we are powerful; the welfare of our civilization and our species is in our hands. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In modern Alexandria few people have a keen appreciation, much less a detailed knowledge, of the Alexandrian Library or of the great Egyptian civilization that preceded it for thousands of years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z By the end of the week I’d managed to squeeze into introductory courses in English, American history, music and religion, but I was stuck in a junior-level course on art in Western civilization. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z At the same time that Mayan civilization was developing, the Olmecs, sometimes called Mexico’s “Mother Culture,” flourished in the Valley of Mexico. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Nations did not need to have the same kind of civilization, nor the same kind of leader, any more than the puffins and the guillemots did. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite the many trappings of civilization at Base Camp, there was no forgetting that we were more than three miles above sea level. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z If we multiply by a hundred thousand our sense of loss for this work of Aristarchus, we begin to appreciate the grandeur of the achievement of classical civilization and the tragedy of its destruction. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And nowhere else have people living at such heights—in places where most crops won’t grow, earthquakes and landslides are frequent, and extremes of weather are the norm—repeatedly created technically advanced, long-lasting civilizations. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z For thousands of years, as civilizations waxed and waned, these three art forms—painting, sculpture, and architecture—embodied the ambitions, dreams, and values of their cultures. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, I suppose exploring games. Discovering lost civilizations and stuff like that.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Esteban Trueba spent many hours with him, first in front of the crystal set, and then, with the battery-operated radio, awaiting the miracle of the distant, anonymous voice that gave them contact with civilization. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Cobb sometimes subbed for their Social Studies teacher, and he always managed to slip in a story about the Vietnam War, even when their class unit was on ancient civilizations. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z As Malory pictures him, Arthur of England was the champion of a civilization which is misrepresented in the history books. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z If we received such a message we would deduce a civilization out there that was at least fond of prime numbers. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But once the civilization calmed, quieted, and wars ceased, the question became senseless in a new way. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z American civilizations resting on animal power might have been sending their own conquistadores to ravage Europe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But that is very different from saying that there are a billion planets on which technical civilizations now exist. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z If civilization has an opposite, it is war. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z They could still see the faint, blurred likeness of the machine, like a relic from a previous civilization. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The major intellectual pursuit of his last years was a concordance and calibration of the chronologies of ancient civilizations, very much in the tradition of the ancient historians Manetho, Strabo and Eratosthenes. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She saw signs of another village in the distance—she smelled smoke and saw the faint glow of something like civilization. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z The civilization he meant to build has transmogrified to a forest thick with traps. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Ten minutes later they were crossing the frontier that separated civilization from savagery. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z However, if a hotel or high-rise along the ocean leaves its lights on, the turtles will head toward the brighter light of civilization and never make it to the ocean. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z We could have been an Okie family heading west, while Papa in his wide-brim hat and his turtleneck sweater drove like a wild man, as if he couldn't wait to get back to civilization. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z To be in London, which I had always believed to be the heart of civilization. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z What if an advanced civilization lived on Mars? Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Even of these several hundred crops, most provide minor supplements to our diet and would not by themselves have sufficed to support the rise of civilizations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As a result, domestic animals did not reach sub-Saharan Africa until thousands of years after they began to be utilized by emerging Eurasian civilizations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For instance, with the fall of Mycenaean Greek civilization, around 1200 B.C., Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Cloaking his savagery under the banner of civilization, Hale portrayed himself as an American pioneer who had helped forge a nation out of the raw wilderness. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z "This tradition goes back to the very beginning of our islands, and to the onset of our civilization. For generations my ancestors have had the grand privilege to be guardians of our most treasured jewels." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z However, as civilization developed, and particularly in the last 300 years, more and more regularities and laws were discovered. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The ancient civilizations of the black man have been buried on the Black Continent all the time. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “We did not ask you white men to come here. The Great Spirit gave us this country as a home. You had yours...We did not interfere with you. We do not want your civilization!” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z The end of civilization as we know it. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Nineteenth-century authors tended to interpret history as a progression from savagery to civilization. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the centers of civilization war means no more than a continuous shortage of consumption goods, and the occasional crash of a rocket bomb which may cause a few scores of deaths. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z She was probably fine, and would learn about our few days of crisis only when she came back to civilization. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z But despite the relative proximity of the bus to civilization, for all practical purposes McCandless was cut off from the rest of the world. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Is that what we wish civilization to be? Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z But the way the French see it, the Germans destroyed civilization here in Europe and no punishment is too bad for them. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z There could be remnants of civilizations destroyed by wars or by beasts or by immune systems that failed a sudden bacterial pop quiz. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z We would like to discover a lost civilization. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The classical civilization that created them disintegrated, and the library itself was deliberately destroyed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The two were the patrons of handicrafts, the arts which along with agriculture are the support of civilization; he the protector of the smiths as she of the weavers. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Tibe evidently was going to press Karhide’s claim to that region: precisely the kind of action which, on any other world at this stage of civilization, would lead to war. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Here, for the first time, I found ways and techniques of gauging meaningfully the effects of American civilization upon the personalities of people. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z He pointed out that civilization is progressing and we remember who performed this deed or developed that technique. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He talked a great deal about Truth also, for he was, he said, “cutting down beneath the veneer of civilization.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “We’ve wandered too far from civilization, boys. The folk that need me don’t trust me, and the ones that trust me can’t afford me.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The world they represented, of philosophy, science, literature—an entire civilization—took on a life that was distinct from the life I had known. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Every schoolchild knew of the information abuses that nearly brought down civilization before the Thunderhead condensed into power. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Hence it may have been Africa that gave birth to the languages spoken by the authors of the Old and New Testaments and the Koran, the moral pillars of Western civilization. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z On the other hand, there must be many quite different pathways to an advanced civilization of specified capabilities. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I read some newspaper editorials and listened to television commentary that wondered if perhaps western civilization itself might soon be at an end with the technologically superior Russians taking over. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The farther we walk, the fewer people we see, until it begins to feel as though we’ve left civilization behind. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z But that is Rachel to a T, trying to work in just one last sin before leaving civilization. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z For their brief stay in civilization the Eskimos were rewarded with a taint of poison. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z And this fear ran so deep that we accepted their standards of civilization and humanity. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z In fact, there is almost no chance that two galactic civilizations will interact at the same level. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For the next four thousand years, Andean civilization was influenced by only one major import from the world outside: maize. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But as the forest, in a process out of Heart of Darkness, stripped away the layers of civilization, they became indistinguishable from their neighbors. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z We would discover the nature of other civilizations. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The people of these “mound builder” civilizations dispersed before the European invasion, but we know their descendants today as the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee Creek, and Natchez Nations of the Southeast. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z For it is my opinion that we enclose and celebrate the freaks of our nation and of our civilization. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “But chastity means passion, chastity means neurasthenia. And passion and neurasthenia mean instability. And instability means the end of civilization. You can’t have a lasting civilization without plenty of pleasant vices.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The Greek universe, created by Pythagoras, Aristotle, and Ptolemy, survived long after the collapse of Greek civilization. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Even nearby civilizations could spend millions of years in such separate or joint colonial ventures without ever stumbling upon our obscure solar system. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was too near the north—which was Mordred’s county— too far away from the securities of civilization. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Such had been the surprisingly modem civilization which Arthur had inherited. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Doors burst open all along the walls, and skeletal warriors marched in, hundreds of them, from every time period and nation in Western civilization. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Suppose he meant to take it, when the time came, and strike out on his own, hoping to find civilization surviving somewhere? Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Maybe they could make it past the camp, then follow the dirt road back to civilization. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z If either of the two giant white nations pushes the button, white civilization will die! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps on his rare sojourns into civilization, Smith had passed the Howard Automobile Company dealerships springing up. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Any civilization able to intercept Voyager in the depths of interstellar space, its transmitters long dead, would know far more science than we do. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z If these climatic and geological disasters occurred throughout the Norte Chico, they could have brought to an end the civilization that began in the area two millennia before. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Either one of these things is dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z We’re taught that Western civilization originated in the Near East, was brought to brilliant heights in Europe by the Greeks and Romans, and produced three of the world’s great religions: Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I invite you, if you disagree with my estimates below, to make your own choices and see what implications your alternative suggestions have for the number of advanced civilizations in the Galaxy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It would be the first time in all the world that intelligent beings, besides men, had ever tried to start a real civilization of their own. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z If the nearest civilization is, say, 200 light-years away, it takes only 200 years to get from there to here at close to the speed of light. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They could keep their own civilizations, like Esquimaux and Hottentots, if they would give each other freedom of trade and free passage and access to the world. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Or might it be, despite all the pretensions about UFOs and ancient astronauts, that our civilization has not yet been discovered? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Miss Janna, every age has had that. It appears to be a by-product of civilization.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z A strange scenario: a small comet hits the Earth, as millions of them have, and the response of our civilization is promptly to self-destruct. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The mortal conflict would rage for decades until all civilization was swept away, and the earth goddess awakened fully. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Honestly, a latrine does seem like a return to civilization. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Concealed at the top of Figure 19.2 is our first surprise, a big shock for Eurocentric believers in the superiority of so-called Western civilization. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z To find a diet free from DDT and related chemicals, it seems one must go to a remote and primitive land, still lacking the amenities of civilization. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Those Fertile Crescent crops spread into climatically similar adjacent areas of North Africa and laid the foundations for the rise of ancient Egyptian civilization. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “I have led you to civilization through the uncharted wastes of Hill House.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Whenever civilization has gone through a major technological revolution, the world has changed in profound and unsettling ways. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Perhaps we are mistaken in our belief that at least occasional civilizations avoid self-destruction. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The world had some pretty cool stuff, but it didn’t amount to much when the sun decided to wipe out most of civilization. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z As elsewhere in the world, in China food production gradually led to the other hallmarks of “civilization” discussed in Chapters 11—14. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And it is His will that we survive, that we keep alive the flame of Western civilization in this dark continent ruled by religions of the anti-Christ. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z But the centerboard twice rubbed on the bottom lightly, so he took her back out a bit to deeper water until he had covered most of the bay and still found no sign of civilization. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z This was the full measure of civilization’s evils we felt obliged to carry with us. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In addition to the Mayan and Aztec civilizations, the Olmec, Toltec, and Culhua peoples thrived in Mesoamerica at different times. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z If the nearest civilization is farther away than that, then we can continue to breathe easy for a while. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Wherever my eyes turned they saw stricken, frightened black faces trying vainly to cope with a civilization that they did not understand. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘So you destroy our ship. You destroy the entire coastline of the world. Once Gaia wipes out human civilization, who’s left to fear you? You’ll still be unknown.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z We may be only one of millions of advanced civilizations. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Of the millions of stars that may mark the location of advanced civilizations, we have so far examined by radio no more than thousands. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z If Christian civilization was so wonderful, why were its inhabitants all trying to settle somewhere else? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z To learn a little about what other kinds of civilizations are possible, we can study history and cultural anthropology. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And with our newly acquired information sorted into a computer memory, we would be able to see which sort of civilization lived where in the Galaxy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Who today remembers that gasoline, the fuel of modern civilization, originated as yet another invention in search of a use? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The manners of the table, too, had reached a pitch of civilization far beyond our own. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The primer would be repeated again and again because the transmitting civilization would have no way to know when we tuned in on the message. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Cut off from civilization, the Nhambiquara Indians were adept at hiding from plain view in the rain forest. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z And like most other civilizations Egypt did not have—or need—a zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Perhaps among the contents of the Encyclopaedia Galactica will be a set of summaries of such civilizations, the information enigmatic, tantalizing, evocative—even after we succeed in translating it. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Was your civilization conquered by a European nation?” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Black exhaust enveloped her, and civilization became this monster that snarled across the sky. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z "There is now little doubt," Michael Coe, the Yale archaeologist, wrote in 1994, “that all later civilizations in Mesoamerica, whether Mexican or Maya, ultimately rest on an Olmec base.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z To be labelled as the friend of a man who said that he didn’t like civilization—said it openly and, of all people, to the Controller—it was terrible. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z He set out not merely to build houses on this primitive territory, but to plant the seeds of a new civilization. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z He raised his yellow eyebrows without looking up at Father, and said, “Now, Reverend, this civilization the Belgians and Americans brought, what would that be?” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But where Europe had the profoundly different civilizations of China and Islam to steal from, Mesoamerica was alone in the world. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z If they are correct, and Aspero turns out to be substantially older than now thought, it might win the title of the world’s oldest city—the place where human civilization began. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He comes of a people who have lived under queer conditions of life, conditions thrust outside the normal circle of our civilization. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z In this case there is no way for the transmitting civilization to know whether we have received the message. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Most especially it was frightening when it recalled the Ruin, the end of the civilization of the ancestors. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have much better things to do than worry about the collapse of civilization as we know it.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Yet genetic deterioration through man-made agents is the menace of our time, “the last and greatest danger to our civilization.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Our modern global civilization, our view of the world and our present exploration of the Universe are profoundly indebted to their insights. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We can never let up; we scramble our way through one civilization after another, metamorphosing, sprouting tools and cities everywhere, and all the time new words keep tumbling out. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It is possible to explore this great issue further and make a crude estimate of N, the number of advanced technical civilizations in the Galaxy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, Egyptian civilization was bad for math in more ways than one; it was not just the absence of a zero that caused future difficulties. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But ever since the dawn of civilization, people have not been content to see events as unconnected and inexplicable. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Far from glorifying peoples of western European origin, we shall see that most basic elements of their civilization were developed by other peoples living elsewhere and were then imported to western Europe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Another stumbling block to doing as he pleased was the very idea of chivalry or of civilization which Arthur had first invented and then introduced into his own young mind. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The second reason we would be quite unlikely to see any little green men is that possible civilizations are bound to be scattered in time, coming into existence and then dying out. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Then we could have ordered the Inca army to capture the gold-crazed conquistadors and saved the Inca civilization, and history would have been different. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z And twenty-three-year-old Orson Welles as the middle-aged astronomy professor facing the end of civilization...on the night America was spooked. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z He glided back to civilization three days later, tanned and happy. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s supposed to make me love them? Their precious ‘Western civilization is a disease, Percy. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z I was suddenly pointedly aware of the fact that I was standing in one of the cornerstones of civilization, talking to the Master Archivist of the University. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Most of these have now left most of us, thanks to antibiotics, plumbing, civilization, and money, but we remember. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The only sign of civilization is a small log cabin and a long dirt road that curves out of sight. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “Stability,” said the Controller, “stability. No civilization without social stability. No social stability without individual stability.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “Just because you were sent here as a punishment doesn’t mean you have to be a lazy jerk! This is your civilization, too. Maybe you could try helping out a little!” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z None of these tasks requires zero; civilizations functioned perfectly well for millennia before its discovery. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In our modern civilizations, we don’t really think of bathing with soap and water as being gendered. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z She’s always looking for like evidence of the decline of civilization. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He sat morosely drinking coffee, reading an odd assortment of magazines or pamphlets speculating on space travel and ancient civilizations. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z An interstellar message, intended to be understood by an emerging civilization, should be easy to decode. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The first one was his own private belief that God wrathfully is going to destroy this civilization. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It is possible that at some later time with third and higher orders of colonies developing new worlds, another independent expanding civilization would be discovered. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z From an extraterrestrial perspective, our global civilization is clearly on the edge of failure in the most important task it faces: to preserve the lives and well-being of the citizens of the planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Decades later, when she heard that a petition was being circulated asking that she follow Glenn into space, she returned to American civilization. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z The real problem for Kermit was that he was head over heels in love with his fiancee, and he couldn’t wait to get back to civilization so he could marry her. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Perhaps they have a different sort of spaceship or ray gun, but in battle—and science fiction loves to portray battles between civilizations—they and we are rather evenly matched. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He concluded that Mars was inhabited by a civilization far more advanced than Earth’s. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Slavery had sapped classical civilization of its vitality. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z At anything like our present rate of technical progress, an advanced civilization millions of years old is as much beyond us as we are beyond a bush baby or a macaque. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Tell me about your civilization here,” he said, waving his hand at the mountain towns. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “But industrial civilization is only possible when there’s no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z If we should receive a radio message from an extraterrestrial civilization, how could it possibly be understood? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Did a linguistic or cultural factor account for the otherwise puzzling failure of complex Andean civilizations to develop writing? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Mollie’s family was straddling not only two centuries but two civilizations. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Luckily, not all civilizations were so afraid of zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In one of archaeology's most enduring mysteries, Maya civilization crumbled around it within a century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z As long as our inquiries are limited to one or two evolutionary lines on a single planet, we will remain forever ignorant of the possible range and brilliance of other intelligences and other civilizations. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, after fighting a bunch of wars with each other over land, resources, and our made-up gods, we eventually got all of our tribes organized into a ‘global civilization.’ Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z That was the man’s real trouble, not the savage and uncanny civilizations he encountered—he kept forgetting what he had. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The astronauts had landed on the shores of the Sea of Tranquillity, I had read, traveling farther than anyone in the history of civilization. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Baltimore, New York, Philadelphia—these places represent American civilization, and many figured that the only way to keep the country together would be to rebuild it.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z And it is a mistake to believe that Arthur’s civilization was weak in this famous science of ours. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z As a little girl, I did not know I was a descendant of the Inca, the most powerful ancient civilization of South America. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I was living in a culture and not a civilization and I could learn how that culture worked only by living with it. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Using the speech as background in a rock threnody for the end of civilization with drum machine, rampant echo and weeping trumpet: that’s hilarious. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-02-28T23:00:00Z Why do we care — as a species and a civilization — about this stuff? Review: ‘The Price of Everything’ Asks $56 Billion Questions About Art 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z A cup can be read like a book and can tell us as much about the civilization that produced it. “Comment sections are brilliant and extremely relevant”: Christy Wampole on the awfulness of Facebook, the utility of “think pieces” and why you might be reading the Internet all wrong 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z Because of this, the mental state of women was arrested in time and "characteristic," as Darwin put it, "of the lower races, and therefore of a past and lower state of civilization." How Darwin’s sexual selection theory co-stars in "The Handmaid’s Tale" 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z And though their characters have just endured the destruction of their civilization and the slaughter of most of their families, voices are seldom raised in agony or lamentation. Review: ‘Battlefield’ Explores the Silence After the War 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z “I don’t see colors,” reads one; “Africa has no civilization” is another. Remembering the Racist History of ‘Human Zoos’ 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z I’ve thought about this a great deal, and I am relatively certain that after the collapse of civilization, TV critics for the internet will not be vital and productive members of society. “Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No”: The inevitable apocalyptic climate catastrophe we know we can defeat (with chainsaws!) 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z We’ve seen so many books about the fall of our civilization, dystopian novels that focus on the ramifications for small and large communities alike. The Amish survive the apocalypse in 'When the English Fall' 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z He also wants us to see a distant mirror of our current civilization, with its inane and unresolvable clashes over territory and religion. Theater Review: Kenneth Lonergan’s ‘Medieval Play’ at Signature 2012-06-08T02:05:00Z Here at the Billings Farm you see the moment of creation when we started to understand that some release from civilization is required. Q&A: How Ken Burns Explores New England 2013-05-15T16:19:29Z For a while, it was, believe it or not, kids were stealing quarters out of their mothers’ purses in order to go to the video arcade, and that was going to bring down civilization. ‘Simpsons’ Creator Matt Groening Says Debate Around Apu Is ‘Tainted’ 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z Is there nowhere safe from civilization and its discontents? Murders Most Foul 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z Moenjodaro never rose again, and the Indus Valley civilization that it dominated soon disappeared too. Ghost Cities Of 2100 2010-07-27T16:00:00Z Since then it’s been recast on screen in many shapes and sizes, often as an anxious metaphor for the fragility of civilization or the evils of colonization or the cold war. Television: Kindly Keep Your Mitts Off My Planet 2011-06-03T20:59:53Z In the nineteenth century, Williams explains, “culture” was often opposed to “civilization.” The Meaning of “Culture” 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z Shows have grown a lot gloomier in the last few years, and not just all the series that start with the end of the civilization. Television Review: Andre Braugher Commands a Renegade Vessel in ‘Last Resort’ 2012-09-26T22:06:40Z I’ll answer your question, but first I need to explain all of human civilization in 2 minutes with the aid of a cartoon snake. How Do I Get Over My Bad Habit of Procrastinating 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z At once tragedy and farce, it breathes new life into a story as old as civilization. ‘A New Old Play’ Review: Even the Clown Show Must Go On 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z Here, an hour and a half northeast of San Francisco, the dense press of civilization lifts, and the open wilderness weaves itself into the landscape. At Berryessa National Monument, Wildflowers and Rebirth 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z Himmler would send an expedition to Tibet to search for traces of this primordial civilization. It turns out ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ wasn’t so far off about the Nazis 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z As the author has written elsewhere, “To hold Wagner in some way responsible for Hitler trivializes a hugely complicated historical situation; in a sense, it takes the rest of Western civilization off the hook.” From George Eliot to Neo-Nazi Skinheads: The Chaotic Cult of Richard Wagner 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z But because the Vampire Diaspora stretches over every continent and civilization that we know of, they will always be too diverse to label. "True Blood" finale: The big showdown 2010-09-13T12:30:00Z In all, a tally of perhaps 10 million military deaths in a civilization in self-immolation. Viewing World War I Through the Prism of the Personal 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z And that it was probably connected to some civilization… “NASA has to be extraordinarily careful”: What happens now that we know there’s water on Mars 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z So imagine their shock when a routine adventure — a quest to find a fabled cavern, described in old newspaper clippings as a treasure-filled tomb — turns up actual evidence of supernatural mysteries and an unknown civilization. New & Noteworthy Poetry Books 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z In other words, you can know your clapboard house is on fire, and you’re a long way from civilization. Our First Amendment test is here. We can’t afford to flunk it. 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z In the future it lives and breathes alongside Shakespeare and great music, each valued as the aspects of civilization worth protecting and uplifting. HBO Max's must-watch "Station Eleven" brings comfort and joy after the eerily familiar apocalypse 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z Suffice to say it’s rare that an episode of “Survivor” or “Dance Moms” leaves one optimistic about the state of civilization. “Not all of us are A-plus students all the time”: Life lessons from “Master Chef Junior”, TV’s most inspiring show 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z “Out of all the ancient civilizations, Egypt’s was the only one that really valued women,” says Lexie de los Santos, who helps promote National Geographic exhibits. Who ruled the world? In ancient Egypt, often times it was a woman. 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z When civilization collapses it won't be a matter of weeks or months, it will probably be a slow burn, with key moments of course, like the way the Roman Empire fell. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2 Premiere Recap: Smoke on the Water 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z For a dystopian novelist, Jacobson is coy about what disrupted modern civilization, and he has little interest in describing the intricacies of the current state. Book review: ‘J,’ by Howard Jacobson, is a chilling tale of our anti-Semitic future That’s actually a plus for this fragile, almost ethereal movie, especially in the second half as Lu and Georgie are drawn further from civilization and closer to their destinies. ‘Dirt Music’ Review: Damaged Lovers and Dreamy Landscapes 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z A Los Angeles Times article on Yosemite without visitors described the landscape as an imagined future “where the artifacts of civilization remain, with fewer humans in the mix.” The Rise of the Coronavirus Nature Genre 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z The sense of being outside the fold, beyond the pale and cut adrift from civilization takes shape in such scrappy works. Rina Banerjee "Disgust" at L.A. Louver 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z City Hall said “the ‘life masks’ will be arranged round the plinth in the form of a Tzompantli, a skull rack from Mesoamerican civilizations” of what is now Central America and Mexico. Two artworks chosen for display in London’s Trafalgar Square 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z But the ick factor didn’t matter because we relied on the handshake to keep Western civilization humming along — one gentleman’s agreement, one political campaign, one lesson in good sportsmanship after another. Perspective | The handshake will return. It’s too much a part of who we are. 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z The torments of life in the untrammeled wilderness of the period are so convincingly captured that you leave the theater elated to lay eyes on civilization — cars, restaurants, men without hatchets. About That Bear: Alejandro G. Iñárritu Discusses Making ‘The Revenant’ 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Whereas, if you accept the reality that the planet will soon overheat to the point of threatening civilization, there’s a whole lot more you should be doing. What if We Stopped Pretending the Climate Apocalypse Can Be Stopped? 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z There were existing civilizations in the hemisphere, and then a brutal conquest by outsiders, and now there are centuries of cleaning up the trauma. How the Denver Art Museum Kicked Columbus Out the Door 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z “The battle with the slum began the day civilization recognized in it her enemy,” he wrote. Jacob Riis Photographs Still Revealing New York’s Other Half 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Rohrer explained to me that in his new game, not yet titled, the first player, Eve, will be the civilization’s first human being. Jason Rohrer and the Art of the Video Game 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z In the next heartbeat civilization will melt away, the law will disappear, and we will meet at the center of the cage to try to kill each other. My own personal Fight Club: How an English professor became a cage fighter 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z Sharon Levy, executive vice president of original programming at Spike, said the series doesn't necessarily coincide with the theory that the ancient Mayan civilization predicted the end of the world will arrive in December 2012. New TV series awards bunker to winning survivalist 2012-06-05T18:40:10Z "But I get very upset when art is destroyed ... that is an irrevocable attack on beauty, culture and civilization." Copper thieves target South African bronze art 2011-10-25T13:44:10Z The civilization exported by industrial capitalism was not so civilizing. Artists Reveal a Dark Side of the Bourse’s Crowning Glory 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z What would Western civilization have been like had it worshiped not a single, remote, male god, but two or more vividly present divine beings of both genders? Art Review: A Life-Affirming Female Force, Ready to Rumble 2011-07-07T21:58:23Z It is true that American nationhood is not rooted in claims to an older civilization, but something like American cultural patrimony exists for the things we choose to value as a nation. Letters: Elgin Marbles: A Different Patrimony 2010-05-13T13:15:00Z I devoutly hope that after the apocalypse, the people rebuilding civilization pick up their physics not from the Principia but from a good recent physics textbook– Matter and Interactions, say. Recommended Science Books For Non-Scientists 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z But the term began to mean something different to me in Kuala Lumpur — KL, as it is commonly known — a city that lies between two of the world’s oldest civilizations. T Magazine: Beyond the Melting Pot 2011-05-16T19:45:36Z Lokteff and Red Ice TV provide the online base camp for a networked public of alt-right women, who act as a chorus to demand preservation of the exalted Western civilization that their white men built. Alt-right women and the "white baby challenge" 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z Creating a game with a more realistic sense of death, and a taut sense of the time we have in a single life, will, he thinks, help give rise to a virtual civilization. Jason Rohrer and the Art of the Video Game 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z In between, the author swivels among civilizations, depicting Jewish life in the ancient Near East, in the Roman and Hellenistic world, and mingled with early Christianity and Islam. Books of The Times: Simon Schama’s ‘The Story of the Jews’ 2014-03-10T20:50:31Z “What if we don’t want to come back to civilization?” How to Prepare Now for the Complete End of the World 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Daddy Dearest has risen having honed tremendous self-control and a useful protective technique, “ghosting,” which renders him invisible to the monsters plaguing human civilization: the nonbearlike Ursa. Movie Review: ‘After Earth,’ Starring Will Smith and Jaden Smith 2013-05-30T21:48:08Z Your halter top will bring about the fall of civilization. 8 most absurd lessons Americans teach kids about sex 2014-04-21T00:00:00Z "We will face the barbarians. It's a question of civilization and culture." Paris Photo art fair shut down in wake of attacks. 'We will face the barbarians,' fair exec says 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z The core battle, however, is a defense of what Gustave, doused in cologne and charming fastidiousness, calls the “faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity.” Films to Heal a Broken Moment 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z In radical contrast, Boas presented non-Western artifacts as the fruits of various sophisticated civilizations. Museum of Natural History’s Renewed Hall Holds Treasures and Pain 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z Thus, Moaveni writes, “ISIS became, in the Western imagination, a satanic force unlike anything civilization had encountered since it began recording histories of combat with the Trojan Wars.” Inside the Minds of the Women Who Joined ISIS 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z The Italian island of Sicily is — perhaps more than any corner of Europe — a layer cake of civilizations. Discovering Sicily’s layers of culture 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z Alfaro also creatively draws on the darker myths and superstitions of earlier civilizations and mythologies. In eSe Teatro production, ‘Oedipus’ gets an L.A. makeover | Theater review 2012-12-10T22:17:46Z If you watch a lot of cable news, you’ve seen Robert Reich, secretary of labor in the Clinton administration, presenting his theory that civilizations are largely supported by the vitality of the middle class. SIFF week 3: 10 movies to see 2013-05-30T18:12:29Z "For me," says Fiennes, "Gustave is representing that bygone world, where things like a table beautifully laid with precision and order mattered, because they're about a civilization and the best of human aspiration." Ralph Fiennes on nostalgia, heart in Wes Anderson's 'Grand Budapest Hotel' 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z Culture tends to prize its particular local character; civilization seeks to make itself universal. Thomas Mann on the Artist vs. the State 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Anatolia was "the cradle of western civilization; it was the birthplace of history and philosophy, of Homer, Heraclitus and Herodotus, of coinage and town planning, and defining advances in medicine, mathematics and architecture". Meander: East to West Along a Turkish River by Jeremy Seal – review 2012-07-06T21:55:10Z Or, if you like magical realism and vintage appliances, try “Ice Age,” about a lost civilization inside an old freezer. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Like its predecessor, the new 300 presents a spurious clash of civilizations. Zack Snyder and the West Should Stop Killing Ancient Persians 2014-03-10T14:33:58Z When it comes to the preservation of what he calls the “sounds of our civilization,” Hart practices what he preaches. ‘Sesame Street,’ Radiohead and wax cylinders enter Library of Congress 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z Now, it showcases art from nearly every civilization on the planet, including about 50 pieces acquired through Napoléon’s Egypt campaigns — and the gigantic “The Coronation of Napoleon.” Discovering Joséphine Bonaparte in Martinique, Italy and France 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z Describing the story of the West and Islam as a civilization vs. jihad battle serves to stoke extremism on all sides. Trump’s Muslim travel ban is a win for ISIS: This must-see film about Syrian journalists shows why 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z As evidence, she quotes Newt Gingrich’s argument in the mid-1990s that welfare programs “ruin the poor. They create a culture of poverty and a culture of violence which is destructive of this civilization.” A Dumping Ground for the Poor, the Criminal and the Mad 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z Based on the award-winning novels by science fiction writer Isaac Asimov, the new Apple TV series "Foundation" follows a band of exiles on a mission to rebuild civilization after the fall of a galactic empire. "Foundation": An introduction to five major themes in the work of sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z And he knew war intellectually, praising it in his 1838 "Manual of Political Ethics" as a moral imperative needed to spread civilization. 'Lincoln's Code': the man who wrote the rules of war 2012-11-14T20:37:05Z “La Sapienza,” quiet and conversational as it seems, is a passionate defense of — and perhaps also an elegy for — an old and dignified ideal of civilization. Review: In Eugène Green’s ‘La Sapienza,’ a Search of Ideals of Civilization 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z The only option was to cut anchor from civilization and all its modern amenities. Explorer: An Aimless Sailing Trip Off Palawan in the Philippines 2012-03-09T23:12:36Z But always, the Jewish Museum conceives of art and religion as interlocking elements of a story of civilization, commendably open to new influences and new interpretations. Art and Museums in NYC This Week 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z "Seeing the antiquities of your country, a civilization that is thousands of years old, destroyed within minutes is very painful," he told Reuters during a visit to his studio. Iraqi artist recreates ancient works destroyed by Islamic State 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z Climate change is a “challenge of civilization,” said Francis in the December 1 message made public by the Vatican on Wednesday. European Union predicts it won’t meet its goal for cutting greenhouse gases 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z In our current state, in which a single thoughtless tweet has the potential to trigger the downfall of civilization, he continues to show us that honesty and integrity and intellectual rigor have value. Go ask Alex: How I learned Alex Trebek really does have the answers 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z Massing widens the lens wondrously, bringing in Erasmus, the great humanist foe of Luther, and showing how their rivalry set the course for much of Western civilization. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z However: No free republic in the history of civilization has ever lasted longer than 300 years. The walls are closing in on Trump, says “Enemies: The President, Justice & the FBI” author We... 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z Political games and the convenience of existing business plans is evidently more important than the future viability of human civilization to the GOtP and their donors. Review: ‘Merchants of Doubt,’ Separating Science From Spin 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z For a civilization so fixated on achieving happiness, we seem remarkably incompetent at the task. Positive thinking is for suckers! 2012-11-25T13:00:00Z There was no path and no trace of civilization, only birch, pine, and spruce trees rolling over gentle hills in all directions. "You never forget spotting your first mushroom in a Finnish forest": My day with the Mushroom Queen 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z “It is knowledge of architecture,” Wright wrote, “that is essentially not only the salvation of twentieth-century life, but . . . the very basis of our future as a civilization.” ‘Architecture’s Odd Couple’: Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z But McElwee then asserts that “the force of rationality and civilization was led by a cabal of religious extremists” – in the Bush administration — which “was of no concern for Hitchens.” The real New Atheism: Rejecting religion for a just world 2013-12-14T19:00:00Z You may recall that the historic mission of the starship Enterprise was “to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations.” Movie Review: ‘Star Trek Into Darkness,’ Directed by J. J. Abrams 2013-05-15T17:31:02Z “When people say ‘Mother Nature,’ there’s still this sense of nature as other to civilization. Two explorations of nature and centuries-old gender stereotypes 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z “This civilization developed at the height of the mound builders.” Amateur archaeologists’ collection goes on display 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z I hope covering these details didn’t muffle the main point: that you think like yourself, they think like themselves and civilization hinges on your not conflating the two. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: How could they possibly not want to be around your beloved 105-pound dog? 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z And yet the closer I was getting, both geographically and psychologically, to the once-great Yiddish European civilization of my forebears, the more I began to experience the dull horror of its annihilation. From Poland to Lithuania: A Writer’s Search for Her Jewish Past 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z It was the cultivation of plants that turned hunter-gatherers into civilizations. My houseplant garden is a tiny national park Donald Trump can never destroy 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z A trip to view Faulkner’s spirits is the best possible way to begin a long weekend in Oxford, a town in which civilization and distillation, in all their higher forms, are revered. Faulkner and Football in Oxford, Miss. 2011-10-14T18:55:01Z Compare these words with those above from the Song of Songs and it seems that 3,000 years of civilization haven't changed us a bit. Indecent exposure 2011-04-07T21:00:03Z When it comes to the peplum, costumes are less important than projecting the fantasy of a pre-Christian civilization. ‘Gods of Egypt’ and ‘Alexander the Great’: Let Me Polish That Breastplate 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Ms. Longwell said she thinks of Ms. Stuart as “this unique time traveler,” because of “the way she looks at ancient civilizations and our own civilization, always with this capacity for wonderment and astonishment.” Michelle Stuart’s Work at the Parrish Art Museum 2013-08-29T21:35:15Z With its slow-motion momentum and absence of color, “Visitors” is very different from the Qatsi trilogy, in which gorgeous, time-lapse photography and pulsing music evoked the rush of civilization hurtling into the unknown. Movie Review: Godfrey Reggio’s ‘Visitors’ Is a Slow Parade of Faces 2014-01-23T13:00:01Z In “SPQR” — a Latin acronym for “the Senate and People of Rome” — classics scholar Beard tells the story of the civilization against which most Western nations have long measured themselves. Beyond the bestsellers: Michael Dirda picks 12 books for the holidays 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z A writer for the New York Times said he represented the "demise of Western civilization." Andrew Dice Clay enjoys another roll, with help from Woody Allen 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z That’s the premise of Erdrich’s fascinating new novel, which describes a world where evolution is running backward and the future of civilization is in doubt. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z They are the White Hats, the übergeeks, the "warriors for civilization," fighting a Digital World War. 'Worm': Inside the fight against Conficker virus 2011-10-19T23:16:04Z The fake news approach to both biblical lore and the history of Western civilization is commonplace in fantasy movies, but the filmmakers are really pushing it here. Review: ‘Assassin’s Creed’ Whisks Michael Fassbender to 1492 Spain 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z “Late in the day, she appreciated the miracle of civilization, whereby people paraded sacks of grocery, or jingled keys to a car, and were not immediately set upon.” The bankruptcy of liberal America: ‘The Mandibles,’ by Lionel Shriver 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z The unit returns to civilization under the cloak of being presumed deceased and begins to track down the man who framed them. Zoe Saldana is one tough cookie 2010-04-20T13:35:00Z Perhaps that is the most radical, most optimistic aspect of the entire undertaking — in a world where civilization is increasingly synonymous with predictability, Susan Robb dares embrace uncertainty. Susan Robb: connecting people and the wilderness 2013-08-11T01:04:19Z A DIY experimentalist who is often his own one-man crew, shooting with a windup 16-millimeter camera, he gravitates to people on the margins of civilization, living off the grid and out of time. Ben Rivers’s ‘Two Years at Sea’ and ‘Slow Action’ 2012-10-07T05:03:01Z Then there was the fact that Clark’s focus was exclusively on Western civilization, a perspective considered unacceptably parochial in today’s globalized environment. Review: Anodyne ‘Civilizations’ 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z For centuries, geriatrician Louise Aronson says, civilization was divided into three stages as they related to family, not society: childhood, adulthood and what she deems elderhood, the title of her latest book. It was the year of ‘OK boomer,’ and the generations were at each other’s throats 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z Honor it instead as a tribute to a lost civilization that was "Irish" in some sense we will never understand, and that poses questions we will never answer. Hey, Irish Americans: Your "Celtic" tattoo isn't Celtic — because that whole idea was made up 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z In a 1987 speech, Reagan said, “We honor the arts not because we want monuments to our own civilization but because we are a free people.” Trump’s N.E.A. Budget Cut Would Put America First, Art Last 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Passion for scholarship, science and the arts belong less to any one culture than to different historical periods of the world’s great civilizations. “If we did not protest, no one would punish those men”: A brutal murder, a sham trial, and justice denied in Kabul 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z The ancient Maya civilization was one of the most advanced to arise in Mesoamerica, marked by sophisticated mathematics and engineering that allowed it to spread throughout present-day Central America and southern Mexico. New technology reveals numerous ancient Maya structures in Guatemala 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z Like Balki, who loved and mangled American pop culture, Todd loves and mangles Indian civilization. | 'Outsourced': At Call Center, Cultural Clash In Reverse 2010-09-22T18:45:00Z Japanese Noh theater, according to Penguin Classics’ volume of the plays, “is one of the great achievements of civilization.” Noh theater: The world's oldest stage tradition is popping up everywhere 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z And does civilization hold within itself its own inherent barbarism? Review | ‘Civilizations’ is the most ambitious story about art ever told on television 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z In Mann’s view, German culture’s special fate was to exist in opposition to the civilization of Latin Europe, with its “Roman idea of unification.” Thomas Mann on the Artist vs. the State 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z But he added that he was working on a new movie addressing the issue, and that his production company was developing a scripted series looking at the effect of radial warming on civilization. Why Is Hollywood So Scared of Climate Change? 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z “Everybody left paved streets and restaurants and civilization back East or in Europe,” he said. ‘Yellowstone’ Gets a Prequel in ‘1883,’ but It Wasn’t Easy 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z Instead it's an attempt to reboot the entire franchise from scratch, beginning with the 21st-century events that will presumably lead to the downfall of human civilization and the ascendancy of our ape overlords. "Rise of the Planet of the Apes": Can James Franco make peace with chimps? 2011-08-03T21:30:00Z It’s far enough from civilization to be peaceful, but it’s $22,000—a premium lot. A nice place to rest 2012-10-07T20:00:00Z The signs of civilization greeted us: tiny casitas, a boy on a bicycle, a small bodega with cold Presidente beers, and a smoldering trash heap. Driving the Seam of Hispaniola 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z But fascinating, nevertheless, to connect the dots from abandoned beliefs and civilizations to the surviving proofs of beauty and sophistication: graceful mosaic floors, marble columns, statues and efficient systems to trap rain and transport water. Savoring the mythic Aegean on a small-ship cruise in Greece 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z She also traverses the centuries, opening her book by skewering Herodotus, credited with writing the first history of Western civilization. The War Crime No One Wants to Talk About 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z It wasn’t until the drive back into civilization the following morning that the voice mails chirped into view on my phone. You’re the kids who robbed us: Our strange online encounter with our burglars 2014-04-12T23:00:00Z Many words are devoted to the idea of Blanche and Stanley, in “A Streetcar Named Desire,” as embodiments of old and new orders of civilizations. Books of The Times: ‘Stella Adler on America’s Master Playwrights,’ Lectures 2012-08-30T14:03:07Z And every time I think, “Woe is me,” I think about that situation he was in, because if he committed to war, it would be the end of civilization. David Chang Loves Beethoven’s Ninth (but Won’t Finish ‘Infinite Jest’) 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z She pins the decline of civilization on a new trend — specifically, the inspirational quotes written on driftwood that serve as home décor. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings’ and a New Comedy 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z “It will provide future generations with a working legacy by which to recover and comprehend Jewish culture and civilization.” ArtsBeat: A Ten-Volume Look at Jewish Culture 2012-04-30T17:37:45Z In other words, how the idea of memory and trauma functioned in civilization. This Atlas of Art and Memory Is a Wonder of the Modern World 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z For 900 years Moenjodaro, a city in what is now Pakistan, was the urban hub of a thriving civilization, the New York or London of its day. Ghost Cities Of 2100 2010-07-27T16:00:00Z Movie genres, no less than great civilizations, have their periods of ascent and descent. Captain America: Been There, Saved That 2011-07-22T19:45:00Z Situated along the equator, this giant structure is located far from any development, deep in an area inhabited only by tribes who have never made contact with modern civilization. Review | Michael Crichton’s classic thriller ‘The Andromeda Strain’ gets a deadly sequel 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z In “Our Body,” she added, she was concerned by questions like, “How does our civilization treat the female body?,” and, “What is the relationship between the body and words?” A New Subject for a Veteran Documentary Maker: Herself 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z Two decades after a terrible plague destroys modern civilization, a hard-bitten black marketeer ends up in league with a 14-year-old girl as they try to rescue some life for themselves in a ruined America. Critic’s Notebook: Nintendo’s Wii U Is the Talk of the E3 Computer Game Expo 2012-06-10T21:22:17Z A crucible of Native civilization, the town of Taos was a northern outpost of Spain’s colonial empire. Taos Had History and Mystique, but Few Skiers. Can a New Owner Change That? 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Paper is the mother lode of the Morgan Library & Museum, and one of the great through lines of civilizations everywhere. Religious Miniature and Nature Drawings at the Morgan 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z That remains taboo, which means there is a shred of hope for civilization. That's My Boy: Is Adam Sandler the Man? 2012-06-14T10:00:08Z And as the standees are coached by roving “security” men and women to crouch down during the fighting, you get a harrowing portrait of an entire civilization being brought to its knees. Perspective | How London sometimes outshines the lights of Broadway 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z The theme of what “civilization” actually is, or entails, is examined from different perspectives throughout the series. Review | ‘Civilizations’ is the most ambitious story about art ever told on television 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z I read the story a half-dozen times, then stepped gingerly through the yard, wondering if every ant I squashed spelled doom for civilization in 3924. Anthony Doerr Reviews a New Book on Time Travel 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z Emilia, who is half Mexican, feels a kind of national pride in the collection of brilliantly decorative gold jewelry made by the ancient civilizations that inhabited Central America. New York City From a Pint-Size Perspective 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z Video game space soldiers have always been at war with alien civilizations, and Destiny is the latest example. Destiny Is a New Shooter Game From Activision and Bungie 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z A redemptive California, a civilization made of the best hopes and dreams of the young nation, embodies the first book, and this idea animates the full series. Kevin Starr will never be replaced: William Deverell remembers the historian and author 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z The excavation crew at Ur, a cradle of civilization, sifted through the ruins of dozens of graves and buildings each year. Digital Troves, Providing Insights and Reuniting Antiquities 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Others prefer civilization when they’re not performing in, say, an all-Jerome Robbins program, as on Friday, or a mixed bill on Saturday. Dance at Mount Tremper, Saratoga and Jacob?s Pillow 2010-07-15T21:59:00Z Who knew the end of civilization as we knew it would be so monotonous? 2 Art Gallery Shows to Explore From Home 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z Film critic Robin Wood famously argued that "the true subject of the horror genre is the struggle for recognition of all that our civilization represses and oppresses." "The Whale" is a horror film that taps into our fear of fatness 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z Like the ruthlessness of New York real estate, the impossibility of really ever knowing anyone else, or the inevitable destruction of our civilization in the face of risen apes—these are certainties to be faced. Mad Men Watch: In the Name of Love 2013-04-29T09:45:14Z The Gauls, a Celtic tribe that inhabited what is now France, were a boorish bunch before Julius Caesar arrived in 58 B.C. and ushered in civilization. Q&A: Biking Hercules’ Way in France 2014-04-18T18:27:06Z The site being excavated was to conform to his dreams of a pacifist, matriarchal, free-spirited civilization, nothing like the Europe outside tumbling into world war. Remaking Ancient Greece, With Paints or Pixels 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z He took a course on Western civilization at the New School for Social Research that required students to read a British newspaper once a week. Sid Bernstein, Who Brought Beatles to Shea, Dies 2013-08-21T19:45:11Z The Greeks, Carthaginians, Romans, Saracens and Normans are just a few of the civilizations that invaded, each leaving their mark. A road trip around Sicily is a journey across centuries 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z She also says it isn't necessarily tied to a theory that the ancient Mayan civilization predicted the end of the world to arrive in December 2012. New TV series awards bunker to winning survivalist 2012-06-05T18:40:10Z Palmyra was a place where East met West -- tied as much to Classical European civilizations as it was to the cultures of the Middle East and Asia. What will become of Palmyra ruins after Islamic State killing of Syrian archaeologist? 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z Today, Greene’s images evoke a time when travel was still an adventure, ancient civilizations were largely mysterious and the grammar of photography was just being invented. Much About This Artist Is in Doubt. Not His Talent. 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z “I don’t want to be teaching people how to survive and then come back to civilization,” Lynx said. How to Prepare Now for the Complete End of the World 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z The civilization the Christian soldiers represent — the civilization we are part of — is, in these tellings, perpetually on the verge of collapse or capitulation. Tellings of Armida?s Story, Including Gluck?s at Juilliard 2012-02-03T15:51:38Z On a dreary Tuesday morning before work, what better way to start the day than to open my eyes and heart to the cradle of civilization. A Journey Into Iraqi Kurdistan 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z A rescue team monitors him from afar, ready to save him from the wilderness if his quest for civilization goes awry. What’s on TV Tuesday: The BET ‘Hip-Hop Awards’ and ‘The Flash’ 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z All have been relentlessly examined, artifacts of a once-mighty baby boomer civilization. Why Did Los Angeles Become a Cultural Mecca in the Early 1970s? 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z His hope is to get as far as possible from civilization and its savagery. Review: A Baby in a Boat Changes Everything in ‘The Light Between Oceans’ 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z The book is set during the Cultural Revolution when humans establish contact with an alien civilization on the edge of extinction. Republican senators push back against Netflix over "Game of Thrones" creators' new series 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z He has 100 hours to find his way back to civilization or he loses the game - big-time. Running wild: Animal Planet unveils its new season 2013-04-03T14:12:04Z “The internet,” Assange states portentously in the introduction, “is a threat to human civilization.” Julian Assange’s latest wake-up call 2013-04-30T17:42:00Z Rather than teach students about Western civilization, he argues, humanities departments focus on victim groups and their oppressors. We don’t need to “rethink college” — we need to rethink the arguments against it 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z But in its peculiar juxtapositions of raucous comedy and righteous anger, soaring lyricism and simple prose, it certainly reflects a vision of the Great War as a calamity that shattered civilization for good. | 'The Silver Tassie': War Changes a Man, and a Play 2011-07-27T22:15:20Z Most have ruins that tell stories of past civilizations. In Scotland, a ferry-borne exploration of the Inner Hebrides 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z So, the first, and for a long time, only, use of a C-section in Western civilization was to save a baby whose mother had died, either in childbirth or from some untimely accident. The emperor's cut: A C-section saved my life and my baby’s life 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z The idea of Romanization, or the civilization of barbarians, dates back to ancient times. Rome in Ruins 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z Appropriately enough, Figes is himself a latter-day representative of the civilization he celebrates. Review | A welcome reminder that there’s value to being a citizen of the world 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z Cora and I had one last item on our agenda before returning to civilization. In California Desert, Father and Daughter Find the Sublime 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z How would our clothing choices change if all gendered rules about fashion crashed and burned with the rest of civilization? From logos to gender fluidity, what "Station Eleven" costumes reveal in the aftermath of apocalypse 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z “Home” is a remote place indeed — the story revolves around two families living on the edge of nowhere, with no sign of civilization nearby. Review: ‘Echoes of War’ Follows a Confederate Soldier Home 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Other pieces, like “New York Is Killing Me,” “Home Is Where the Hatred Is,” “Angel Dust” and “We Almost Lost Detroit” dealt bluntly with poverty, drug addiction, racism and the lurking catastrophes in industrialized civilization. Gil Scott-Heron, Voice of Black Culture, Dies at 62 2011-05-28T17:37:19Z A library is a symbol of a healthy civilization. Matt Haig: Why I love my library 2013-02-08T09:00:00Z In that story, Shepard obliterates an entire civilization in 2½ pages. Review | ‘The World to Come,’ stories by Jim Shepard 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Early on, he said, “I sensed the comforts of civilization — but also its discontents, what you give up. The emotions are carefully trained, ultimately honed, tamped down.” A.R. Gurney, Playwright Who Explored Upper-Crust Anxieties, Dies at 86 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z “They are workers and from my point view, essential to our civilization.” Perspective | While members of Congress chew the scenery, the arts wait for scraps 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z When you return to Galway civilization, explore the Latin Quarter, where you can grab a drink, check out quirky local art galleries and buy some wool knitwear, a must if you’re visiting Ireland. In Galway, you get great pubs and Irish history and literary culture, without the Dublin crowds 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z The fact that the force of rationality and civilization was lead by a cabal of religious extremists was of no concern for Hitchens. What Hitchens got wrong: Abolishing religion won’t fix anything 2013-12-07T12:30:00Z Olive Garden deserves all the attention it will garner for this crucial touchstone in the descent of human civilization. Olive Garden’s “Never Ending Pasta Pass” is a triumph of civilization 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z Everywhere in “My Joy” the faces and the lives are hard, unyielding, and the homes are like ruins of an earlier civilization; still, there is rough kindness too. | 'My Joy': ?My Joy,? Directed by Sergei Loznitsa - Review 2011-09-29T23:47:55Z The name of the restaurant, by the way, comes from an ancient Nile civilization, Mr. Brown said. Place 19 of 52: A Celebration of African-American Culture in Baltimore 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z “Lost in the War of the Beautiful Lads” sees a mother attempt to safeguard her daughter by moving to a rustic island, only to realize that “we carry the terrors of civilization within us.” Shrewd Short Stories That Merge the Hopeless and the Hopeful 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z Then I had a profound thought: had our modern wedding ceremony survived over centuries and across Western civilization so intact that even a medieval wedding was recognizable today? Frugal Traveler Blog: In Southern Sweden, Singing the Blues and Medieval Jousting 2012-07-17T19:12:31Z Topics: , If and when our civilization expires, we may not even agree on the cause of death. How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z "Ultimately," Bogart concludes, "the hope for any civilization is restraint, which requires character and self-knowledge." 'Norma' and 'La Clemenza di Tito' make for a Roman feast 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z Frank asks: Have other civilizations elsewhere in the universe, evolving through their corresponding Anthropocenes, managed to survive? An Astrophysical Approach to Our Environmental Crisis 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z For the same reasons any of us bother to introduce our children to the sociable practices of civilization. In “The Golden State,” Lydia Kiesling Brings Motherhood to the Road Novel 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z “Much like the disintegration of western civilization, we begin tonight with Donald Trump, the Donald Trump Jr of American presidents,” Oliver began. John Oliver on Stephen Miller: 'One of the most revolting humans I have ever seen' 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z What Travis-Henikoff found was that civilization is rife with the practice of humans noshing on each other — and that it’s rarely borne of psychosis. Our cannibalism obsession 2012-06-06T03:59:00Z For indeterminate reasons, their home became, sometime in the late nineteenth century, an end station of Western civilization, a proving ground for apocalyptic fantasy. The Timbisha Shoshone of Death Valley and the Shadow of Trump 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z He says "it's the end of civilization what's happening there, and from our point of view there is too little criticism ... and we decided to do something in a more poetic way." German-Danish artists stage quiet protest of Syrian violence 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z “Here Alone,” which won the Narrative Award, depicts an apocalyptic civilization ravaged by a virus. Tribeca Film Festival Announces Audience Awards 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z This is the same George Wyndham who observed of an evening in Paris in 1913, “No Jew was there. No American. . . . I had struck an oasis of civilization.” Review | These three sisters were the one percent of the one percent — before it all crashed 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z Thousands of years from now, archeologists sifting through the ruins of our civilization, and trying to reconstruct its vanished rituals, will be as mystified as some viewers were by the presence of Stacey Dash. The Surreal Achievements of the 2016 Oscars 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z Kempowski’s sympathy for the suffering of his characters and his acknowledgment of the attendant destruction of their civilization are diffused by a fine-grained ambivalence. 750,000 Germans Fled East Prussia in 1945. A Novelist Imagines One Family’s Exodus. 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Some scholars believe that Tell Halaf was a trading center for ivory during the time of the Arameans, a nomadic people who settled in the area from around 1200 BC and developed an urban civilization. From the Ashes: Reviving Ancient Works in Berlin 2011-02-05T14:35:00Z Tasmanians, he writes, “were not used to clothes, and houses, and regular hours, and church, and school, and Sunday-school, and work, and the other misplaced persecutions of civilization.” Critic?s Notebook: Forget What You Know of Twain, Then Delight in Your Rediscovery 2010-09-18T00:13:00Z After unknowingly courting a pair of twins, one hostile and one sympathetic, Keaton’s character — no longer billed as Elmer, but more ominously as the Forgotten Man — flees civilization to become a hermit. DVDs: Buster Keaton?s ?Steamboat Bill, Jr.? on DVD 2010-07-04T05:09:00Z Bannon cites “Judeo-Christian civilization” and even characterizes himself with the Yiddish term schmendrick, or “fool,” but Morris doesn’t ask Bannon about the anti-Semitism that is rife on the political far-right today. “American Dharma,” Reviewed: Errol Morris Lets Steve Bannon Off the Hook 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z When he turned to the more densely populated precincts near Boulder, Adams saw that the harmony between nature and civilization had sundered. Sunlit Apocalypse: The Imperiled World of Robert Adams 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z Or a single, fortuitous genetic mutation had occurred, out of which all of human civilization eventually flowed. Does Autism Hold the Key to What Makes Humans Special? 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z But "Conquest 1453" is something new, a homegrown echo of "Troy," "300" and other dramas that pit ancient civilizations against each other in panoramic, digitally enhanced scenes of blood-soaked glory. Turkey: epic movie highlights Ottoman conquest 2012-03-02T10:46:04Z On a metaphorical level, both “Blind Spot” and “Utøya” portray a civilization in free fall. The Power of the One-Take Film 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Yet it may be the most widely remarked feature of these ancient Mesoamerican civilizations. Can Art Ever Be Innocent? 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z Such are the hazards of living at a "crossroads of civilizations". The hill of gold 2011-02-19T00:05:32Z “The dining room is one of the last outposts of civilization,” Helen Corbitt wrote in one of her many cookbooks. Lunching at Neiman Marcus’s Zodiac Room, the One Place in Hudson Yards That Actually Feels Like New York 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z They reflect two of our richest civilizations, two broad religious traditions and a vast share of the world’s artistic heritage — and its future. Where to Go to Understand the World in 2012 2012-01-06T17:19:35Z The war caused a backlash against learning and knowledge, called the Simplification, which wiped out almost all traces of civilization. A Science-Fiction Classic Still Smolders 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z That same year, the management guru Art Kleiner said that his “key impression” of the developing medium was “one of civilization.” Review: In ‘I Agree to the Terms,’ It’s Raining Pennies From Amazon 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z After misrepresenting the Hobby Lobby case, Paul went on to agree with a prior comment from the Vatican’s chief justice, Cardinal Raymond Burke, to the effect that the Obama administration was “hostile toward Christian civilization.” Rand Paul says Obama should apologize to pope Francis for Obamacare’s contraceptive mandate 2014-03-25T18:31:00Z Though every civilization requires violence, Wonder Woman seems most likely to want to talk it out rather than fight it out. Who Wears the Wonderpants? Feminists, Amazons and the fate of the world 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z In short, these are fights over the future of the last bastion of civilization: the school, both as a socially-proscribed place of learning as well as an existential site where emotions intersect with politics. What if the drunk mac-and-cheese douchebag was armed? 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z The most intricate involved a fake history exhibit for a fake scholarly society that believed Antarctica was once inhabited by a fake ancient civilization. Bits Blog: Meet Lord Huron, a Musical Project That Is Also an Alternate Reality Game 2014-02-20T12:26:07Z We connect ourselves to world literature, to ancient civilizations, and to a perennial story about a cataclysm that changed the world. “Noah” wasn’t the first: 5 flood stories you may not know 2014-04-12T14:30:00Z To this it adds neuroscience, sampling a TED Talk about mirror neurons — the motor neurons that fire when you watch someone else move — as the source of empathy, culture and civilization. Review: A Sunny but Disappointing Take on the Tower of Babel 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z With apparent glee, he recalls how they were routinely branded by critics as "the end of Western civilization, sleazy and low-brow." TV game-changer Fox marks 25th year Sunday 2012-04-21T17:48:09Z To many at the time, civilization was not something to be glorified but the core of the problem. The Seductive Enthusiasm of Kenneth Clark’s “Civilisation” 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Glenn is a professor of history at the University of Washington; Sokoloff is a professor of Near Eastern languages and civilizations and professor of comparative literature at the UW. Local books: Jewish identity, new life in a yeshiva and deep-sea diving suspense 2011-01-25T00:22:02Z Nestled on a pristine beach in a big lagoon, this isolated idyll prides itself on being far from civilization. 5 Rural Retreats Worthy of a Detour 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z Yet his depiction of Earth civilization in “Death’s End” is charitable. China's most popular science fiction writer, Cixin Liu, brings his spectacular trilogy to an end 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z We need them because we need civilization to keep evolving. New words to live by 2011-09-06T15:45:04Z Imagine trekking into the desert to dig for treasures from ancient civilizations. On International Archaeology Day, digging up pieces of history on the Mall Above all, the book celebrates the intense civilization of two that Heinlein and his wife created. ‘Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with his Century,’ by William H. Patterson, Jr. And then there are the 2,281 fragile, invaluable and often museum-worthy art objects — statues, sculptures, relics of ancient civilizations — that the office has seized and now must care for. Looking for a Stolen Idol? Visit the Museum of the Manhattan D.A. 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z On July 1, those shape-shifting robots return for a third attempt at taking over civilization in "Transformers: Dark of the Moon." Summer of superheroes ride to Hollywood's rescue 2011-04-27T22:16:09Z Western civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys of Dachau, and I was too infatuated to see it. "The Sunset Limited": How to turn Cormac McCarthy into bad TV 2011-02-10T15:55:00Z Topics include the Internet’s infancy, artificial intelligence and how a solar flare could destroy the Internet along with civilization as we know it. There are two Washingtons, and this week you can see both of them on screen 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z The weirdness is entirely befitting the saga of a futuristic, intergalactic civilization whose denizens are stalked by giant sandworms and revere a hallucinogenic substance called spice. How Hans Zimmer Conjured the Otherworldly Sounds of ‘Dune’ 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z There are many different threads and a lot of different kinds of civilizations who built this world.” The Louvre’s New Islamic Galleries Bring Riches to Light 2012-09-19T12:01:06Z That vision now encompasses Mayan and Aztec history, adding the heritage of two great civilizations to the world it has already imagined. Dressing Wakanda 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z He believed in what he notoriously called “the white man’s burden,” the obligation of the superior West to bring civilization to “lesser breeds without the Law.” In defense of Rudyard Kipling and ‘The Jungle Books’ 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z Comic wellsprings notwithstanding, playwright Anne Washburn’s darker purpose is to explore our desperate need for storytelling — and theater in particular — as a structuring principle at the core of civilization. In 'Mr. Burns,' Sacred Fools mines a classic 'Simpsons' episode for dark comedy 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z All he's trying to do is save his civilization, which is his job. "I'm not trying to fool anybody": From Elvis to Zod, Michael Shannon is versatile but no chameleon 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z That conversation led me to suspect that “Dune” was, in part, Herbert’s attempt to rival Vance by envisioning every aspect of an alien civilization, including its people’s clothing, cultural traditions and religious rituals. Perspective | ‘Dune’ has long divided the science fiction world. The new film won’t change that. 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Yet the pas de deux, though marvelously changing the tone, is less a highlight than the all-male dances, which demonstrate human diversity, extensive debate and liberal civilization. Dance This Fall: Indian Mythology and Ballets by Women 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Eventually Hovhaness settled in Seattle, which seems appropriate in view of his interest in the civilizations on the other side of the Pacific Rim. ?American Mystic? Marks Alan Hovhaness?s Centennial 2011-11-04T20:26:09Z There’s also hope in seeing a woman played by Sandra Bullock be portrayed as steely enough to survive the thrashing death of modern civilization. Why "Bird Box" is smashing Netflix records: We're so close to apocalypse ourselves 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z In his book, "Where Good Ideas Come From," Johnson is looking for the new ideas in our civilization and seeking to explain why they arise where they do. 'Where Good Ideas Come From': Steven Johnson asks why great ideas arise where they do 2010-09-29T21:40:00Z I really like history and geography because I like civilizations. ArtsBeat: 'Nutcracker' Season is Here: An Interview With American Ballet Theater's Little Mouse 2011-12-13T19:52:06Z You climb to get into the park, and the first hills yield an eagle’s-eye view of I-94, the road I’d ridden to get here, and the proximity of civilization to wilderness was striking. Life Is a Wheel: A Cyclist in North Dakota, Tougher and Smarter About Limits 2011-09-02T17:55:00Z Indeed, this failure mode may trip up countless civilizations out there, across the galaxy. How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z It was as if I passed through a civilization tunnel and this made me aware of a larger world; I learned a more global language. Hossein Khosrojerdi's first U.S. solo show opens at Tara Gallery 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z This is a history of Western civilization viewed through the prism of a glass of claret, minus the wars and boring treaties, but full of culture, commerce, art, literature and religion. Crack open the best 2020 wine books for rich history, international politics and a vintner’s lively memoir 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z The sequence establishes the idea of abundant, life-affirming natural energy, counterpoised against mortality and the strictures of civilization. Rollicking one-act plays at the Kennedy Center’s Iberian Suite festival 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z It sits atop the remnants of a civilization, here shown as a junkyard of cars. Review: At Salzburg Festival, a Story of Sex and Conquest 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z It was, he said, a necessary cri de coeur to support Ukraine in a conflict he views as nothing less than a battle for the future of Europe, global liberalism and Western civilization. A Polarizing French Philosopher Chooses War Zones Over Salons 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z “This whole area,” Mr. Pettigrew said, “was a center of civilization when Glasgow and Edinburgh didn’t exist.” Footsteps: Poetry Made Me Do It: My Trip to the Hebrides 2011-10-07T18:55:00Z The weaving is a somber work in beige, black and gray, with ghostly traces that recall architectural forms of the ancient civilization. Review | Don’t know the work of Anni Albers? This gifted artist is finally getting her due. 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z In his book “The Singularity Is Near,” Ray Kurzweil fancifully imagines a future civilization in which computers that have developed a consciousness build even more powerful computers for their own needs. Science doesn’t disprove God: Where Richard Dawkins and new atheists go wrong 2014-04-19T15:00:00Z Nemes: There’s something at the heart of the film that interrogates the nature of evil within civilization, then and now. ‘Son of Saul’: An immersive portrait of life in a Nazi death camp 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z But it’s certainly not because of Clark’s deep insights into the nature of civilization. The Seductive Enthusiasm of Kenneth Clark’s “Civilisation” 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z While Liu’s humanity on the whole is conservative, some characters — both heroes and antiheroes — are determined to save civilization at all costs. China's most popular science fiction writer, Cixin Liu, brings his spectacular trilogy to an end 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z “The foundry is not jaded by the art world or civilization, you know, the crowd of city living and well-worn paths of industry,” Ryle said. In Washington, a Beloved Birthplace for Artistic Giants 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z An unsettling suite by Mr. Lang, “the national anthems,” repurposes anthem lyrics to reveal how, he said, “our civilization is very fragile, and we are terrified of losing it.” Three Composers on the Necessity and Pitfalls of Political Music 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z A Free-Range Approach As schools educate people in the fundamentals of civilization, so must museums also be seen as the logical extension of enriching our lives. Letters: A Free-Range Approach 2010-08-13T17:37:00Z The theatrical ensemble, heroic but disheveled, suggests the contained ruins of a civilization, natural and cultural, on display for our amusement. Adrián Villar Rojas at the Geffen Contemporary: The art museum, frozen in time 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z And because even a nearby alien civilization would probably be some 1,000 light-years away, conversation is just about impossible. Books of The Times: In ?The Eerie Silence,? Paul Davies on Aliens 2010-04-20T21:27:00Z Wearing a sackcloth and ranting into a microphone that the end of civilization is near, he’s the quintessential unrepentant 1960s hippie petrified by modern humankind’s self-destructive ways. We’re doomed, happily: Ron Litman’s protest act in ‘Armageddon’ at Fringe This film, on the other hand, invites the viewer to appreciate the profound cultural legacy of Mexican and Central American civilizations. "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" continues the series’ quest to recover and celebrate lost cultures 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z President Bush awarded Donald Kagan a National Humanities Medal in 2002 for his “distinguished scholarship on the glories of ancient Greece” and for teaching generations “the vital legacy of classical civilization.” Donald Kagan, leading neo-conservative historian, dead at 89 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z Together they rendered Grant’s visit as a nightmarish loss of self-control and civilization, marked by drunkenness, withering heat and sexual misadventure. ‘Wake in Fright’ and Australian New Wave 2012-10-07T05:00:06Z There’s evidence of farming at Palenque as far back as 100 B.C., but the Maya Classic period, when the civilization flourished, was between about A.D. 200 and 900. Mexico’s mysterious Mayan ruins at Palenque, now accessible from the air Bill Mumy narrates Douglas Preston’s engaging, firsthand account of a perilous expedition into the jungle of Honduras to find relics of a vanished civilization, “The Lost City of the Monkey God.” The best audiobooks of March 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z The Southern Highlands is one of the last places that Western civilization had discovered, sometime in the 1930s. Q&A: Timeless Papua New Guinea 2014-05-02T17:58:57Z The idea of Bezos' launching his consumer-focused vision into sowing the seeds of a new civilization in space is therefore both exhilarating and terrifying – more so, in fact, than Elon Musk's Space X project. "Amazon Empire" is PBS' frightening look at Jeff Bezos' relentless capitalist success story 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z “For me, chamber music is the epitome of civilization,” Ms. Bloom once said. Olga Bloom, Violinist and Violist Who Created Bargemusic, Dies at 92 2011-11-25T15:54:01Z This advancement of civilization is seen in the display at Rogers Street Fishing Village. Man donates part of Native American collection 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z The ancient Maya civilization was one of the most advanced to arise in Mesoamerica, marked by sophisticated mathematics and engineering that allowed it to spread throughout present-day Central America and southern Mexico. New technology reveals numerous ancient Maya structures in Guatemala 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z "The big record labels will say civilization will end" if the legislation passes. Future of Music 2012: A fight over Internet radio scraps 2012-11-14T04:21:00Z This all takes place in the first draft of civilization. ‘Pure Colour’ Seeks Answers About Love, Mortality and God 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z “We come as friends” is probably the most consequential lie of our civilization. ‘We come as friends’: The world’s most consequential lie 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Some of the most spectacular works are terra-cotta pieces made of fired clay by the Middle Niger civilization in the 12th to 14th centuries. Review | The Met gives a long-overdue look at an African cultural powerhouse 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z This concept, so vital to modern math, was understood by the Maya, one of the first civilizations to use it. New Youth Center at American Indian Museum Focuses on Invention 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z More’s “Utopia” was the first such response, and a radical one, because it imagined the discovery of a higher civilization than the European somewhere in the Indian Ocean. ArtsBeat: Peter Whitfield Talks About the History of Travel Literature 2012-03-14T14:30:34Z As World War I pulverized any last European claims to civilization, these expat artists turned Zurich into a compression chamber of Western insanity, baptized with the nonsense name Dada. The Wandering Creativity of Sophie Taeuber-Arp 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z A luxuriously large exhibition devoted to the Middle Kingdom period of Egyptian civilization, on view at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, dismantles that prejudice thoroughly. Met exhibit shatters 19th-century myths about ancient Egypt 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z “Tea is one of the mainstays of civilization,” as Orwell put it, and no one ever built a society on naked self-interest, however much Rupert Murdoch might wish otherwise. Popularitea: how putting the kettle on will make your office life better 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z “White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?” he asked in a cringe-filled interview with the New York Times. What the heck does Steve King do all day? 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z We’re so busy imagining our civilization in ruins we can’t see the ruins of the civilization on which we built our homes. The 5th Wave could be an apology for colonialism – but it's not 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z She creates videos and animated films that tackle big subjects, including the history of civilization and technology. Inside Art: Steve McQueen Among 6 Hugo Boss Prize Finalists 2013-12-13T17:27:32Z In fact, “the essence of civilization . . . is dullness.” Review | In these fractious times, a yearning for Walter Bagehot’s ‘age of discussion’ 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z National forest or Bureau of Land Management campgrounds appeal to those who ride to escape civilization. Motorcycle camping gets you out of the box (the boxy house, the boxy car…) 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z In a quarter century of traveling around Vietnam and Cambodia, the passenger, Mark Bowyer, had seen many remnants of the ancient Cham civilization — but not this one. Blogging Is All About the Experiences 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z Models for Donatella Versace’s latest co-ed collection walked through the ruins of a fallen, submerged civilization — its own Medusa logo having fallen to the sea floor amid crumbling ionic columns. Milan Fashion: Marni avenges lockdown with global video 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z The exhibition is intended to reconstruct the first encounter between the Chinese and European civilizations, at the end of the Ming dynasty, according to its curator, Filippo Mignini. Missionary to the Forbidden City 2010-09-27T12:02:00Z A whole civilization of a new type died. The Russian Tom Clancy Is on the Front Lines for Real 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Indeed, for his spring 2018 show, the avant-garde designer Rick Owens, who called suits “a classic symbol of civilization,” incorporated them into his menswear collection alongside his bulbous bags, tiny shorts and vinyl trousers. A history of the final dying days of the power suit 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z He marveled at theater as an act of civilization. Antonio Banderas Doesn’t Think You’ll Remember Him. Not Yet. 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z His look and manner were a correction to what the nameless boy had called the chimerical dream of civilization. In “The Feral Detective,” Jonathan Lethem Returns to Detective Noir for the Trump Era 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z While village life may not be a universal experience, most modern civilizations have histories rooted in agriculture. “Marriage is an uncut watermelon”: How translation brought my native language to life 2014-03-21T22:58:00Z He added that for him, summoning Wilde represented a return to “civilization” after a 100-year decline. For This Artist Duo, a Third Act: A Shrine to Oscar Wilde 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z But his route to being granted the first doctoral degree in American civilization by Harvard and becoming a history professor at Smith College and Harvard was, much like history itself, hardly preordained. Daniel Aaron, Critic and Historian Who Pioneered American Studies, Dies at 103 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Turning this material into a wall keeps the crops on one side and the “wild animals” on the other, which is a pretty good definition of civilization. In the Garden: Thea Alvin on Life With Pebbles and Bam Bam 2013-07-17T23:02:03Z Most strikingly, Beard describes watching Clark, “standing on barbaric northern headlands,” saying that “our” civilization had survived the Roman empire’s collapse “by the skin of our teeth.” The Seductive Enthusiasm of Kenneth Clark’s “Civilisation” 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z The Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations celebrates the region's cultural heritage as well as the former glories of Marseille itself as a crossroads of civilization, not crime. Museum brings makeover to crime-hit Marseille 2013-06-04T10:32:15Z Any notions about wealth gaps and privatization and dancing while civilization disintegrates kind of float around weightlessly in these early episodes, though. Review: HBO’s ‘Avenue 5,’ a Tale of a Fateful Trip (in Space) 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z As Silicon Valley has devolved into a place that produces apps like one that sends the word “Yo,” Mr. Thiel worries its thinking is “not big enough to take our civilization to the next level.” Peter Thiel, Trump’s Tech Pal, Explains Himself 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z We live in a civilization where you live by the day or the minute. HBO's doc "Exterminate All the Brutes" asks: "When was American great — and who was it great for?" 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z “For me, they’re a fabled ancient civilization like the Minoans or Easter Islanders,” he said. The Bay Citizen: With Long Roots in the Bay Area, Improv Comedy Is Thriving 2010-08-08T00:11:00Z Far from civilization, the campers have only a short time to discover why they’re in danger and to find a safe way out. Crime fiction: welcome returns by Brunetti and Anna Pigeon 2014-04-09T19:30:37Z Escape Parisian civilization for a few days . . . on the densely populated East Coast of the United States. A backcountry refuge in Great Smoky Mountains National Park 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z The film bristles with arguments about the state of modern civilization and arresting documentary images of the Romanian capital as a city on the verge of a pandemic-assisted nervous breakdown. The New York Film Festival Is Back, and Our Critics Have Favorites 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Something about it all was like discovering a lost civilization, because we weren't exposed to this anywhere else. How Airborne Toxic Event's album "Hollywood Park" became the "soundtrack" to Mikel Jollett's memoir 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Over time, this “Protestant ethic,” as Max Weber famously argued, gave rise to capitalism and much of the dynamism of Western civilization. ‘Born Bad’: How the idea that we’re all sinners has shaped Western culture 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z But it does so because enough advertisers, affiliates, and viewers are turned off by misogyny, racism, and homophobia, maybe there's hope for civilization yet. Is this the end for a homophobic talk show? 2011-06-03T15:04:00Z Correct: That extraterrestrials helped humankind to develop civilization. Style Invitational Week 1289: Fake gnus — animal fictoids 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Declaring intellectual independence, the Martinique dancer raps, “A civilization that chooses to close its eye to the most crucial problems is a damaged civilization … moribund … decadent.” Artists Reveal a Dark Side of the Bourse’s Crowning Glory 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z They encompass loss, violence, the passage of time, the rise and fall of civilizations, the lavishness of ritual yet they’re also funny, indulgent and outrageous. Sterling Ruby Pipes Down, a Bit 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z She grew up in the center of an ancient civilization. A Single Mom Escapes the Friend Zone, One Non-Date at a Time 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z Another young person cited our "traditional Christian morality, and the fact that we're able to use that morality to create the greatest civilization" in the world. Young conservatives at CPAC share what they love most about America 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z Working in figurative sculpture — or some version of it — she provides a cross-cultural approach that is needed particularly at this moment, making connections among histories, languages and civilizations, and our shared present and future. A Sci-Fi Showdown at the Met Museum’s Rooftop Garden 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z So does civilization depend on the vulnerable “whom”? Yes. Comma Queen: To Whom It May Concern 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z Any of a dozen crises might have ended civilization, or even mammalian life, on Earth. How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z This 8 ½-inch terra-cotta head of a maiden, possibly representing the goddess Persephone, reflects the wealth and artistic skill achieved by Italy’s first great civilization. Looking for a Stolen Idol? Visit the Museum of the Manhattan D.A. 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z It felt like we were looking at a collapsed civilization. Fairway to heaven: What happens to an abandoned golf course 2014-03-13T12:45:00Z On tracks like “Followed the Ocean” and “Basement Mix,” her voice, submerged under tape hiss and aqueous piano chords, sounds like a dispatch from a lost civilization. 66 Pop and Jazz Albums, Shows and Festivals Coming This Fall 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z I could imagine it, as my breath under my mask got hot, as an exhibition of club culture in an ethnographic museum, an embalmed display of some vanished civilization. Dia Beacon Reopens With a Sonic Boom 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z "Terra Nova" Deals with time travel as well, but this time a bunch of scientists are going back to fix civilization, like they made Bruce Willis do in "Twelve Monkeys." NBC and Fox unveil trailers for new series 2011-05-17T12:01:00Z Some six million people a year visit the chapel, home to Michelangelo's famous ceiling frescoes - one of the wonders of Western civilization that are over 500 years old. Vatican acts to protect Michelangelo frescoes as Sistine Chapel visitors swell 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z A series of acrid-hued woodcuts of a colossal, anthropomorphized rat riding two horses over a cityscape, and a rat hand-painted inside a huge pipe lying near the painting underscore the vermin-like nature of human civilization. What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z Up an escalator, a vast neoclassical banking hall stretches the length of the block, wrapped by a mural depicting ancient civilizations and quotations about financial probity. Looking at Where Chicago Works 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z You were close enough to civilization for some of it to rub off on you, if you wanted. The City at the Bottom of the Sea 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z In his bone-hard and skeletally spare latest, he imagines a near-future in which technology is dead — and civilization might be, too. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z There is talk of deportations and alien civilizations, of one side's terrorists being another side's freedom fighters, of resource exploitation as a motive for imperialism, but these themes are never developed. "Captive State" is boring 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z “Those barbaric, criminal terrorists are trying to destroy the heritage of mankind and Iraq’s civilization,” Mr. al-Abadi said, according to the BBC. The National Museum of Iraq Reopens 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z It’s from the Moche civilization in what is now northern Peru. Met Gives Music Gallery a Makeover 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z “His impact on the history of Western civilization is incomparable.” Review | In Sue Monk Kidd’s ‘The Book of Longings,’ Jesus has a wife — and behold, she’s so woke! 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z Did chivalry die along with 97 percent of civilization? The Walking Dead Watch: Cincinnatus Rises 2013-03-25T15:15:36Z "I wanted to send a message to the world saying, 'We ... want to rebuild our civilization and to continue to grow artistically'", said Thabet. Iraqi artist recreates ancient works destroyed by Islamic State 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z Ms. Dinnerstein played its wistful moments with tenderness and brought power and drive to the mock-classical fugues and lopsided waltzes that represent civilization. Music Review: ‘The Story of Babar the Elephant’ at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-11-21T22:50:07Z “The fact is the South embodies much that’s at the core of Western civilization,” Mr. Genovese said in an interview with The New York Times in 1998. Eugene D. Genovese, Historian of South, Dies at 82 2012-09-30T00:04:16Z Nearly every human relationship is defined by domination and subjugation, a system of absolute violence organized under the banner of civilization and the British flag. ‘The Nightingale’ Review: A Song of Violence and Vengeance 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z The globe-trotter Lawrence Osborne is attuned to the often catastrophic clash of civilizations that a mobile world sets in train. Let’s not mince words: Lawrence Osborne’s ‘Beautiful Animals’ is a great book 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z The marbles epitomize Classical Greece and its influence on Western civilization. Letters: It?s All About Context 2010-05-13T13:16:00Z After talking to travel experts, we've come up with a list of our favorite places to drop out of civilization. The Best Places To Hide 2010-09-03T16:00:00Z Cute, zany animal antics on TikTok may be the only thing holding civilization together at this point. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Blanketed with graffiti, it looked like a great monument to a lost civilization. The Gimlet Eye: Heeding a Call to Cross the River 2010-10-20T20:07:00Z Mr. Mensik, giving in to the trappings of civilization, lathers himself in cologne and puts on a suit, as Mr. Vinarsky assembles an outfit from audience donations. Jaro Vinarsky’s ‘Animalinside’ Explores Masculinity 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z Tempting as it may be to remain in the beautiful wilds of the area, it’s worth a return to civilization to catch a show. How to Spend a Perfect Weekend in Santa Cruz 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Aside from a campground across the river, there’s little else except those exemplars of Japanese civilization: drink vending machines and well-kept public bathrooms. Few Americans know about this mysterious, remote valley in southern Japan 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z “If some future archaeologist were to uncover a gas station, like our archaeologists uncover Incan temples, that would be an indicator of what made this civilization rise and fall.” David LaChapelle's Latest Photographs Lure Viewers with Glowing Relics 2014-01-24T05:00:00Z Pick up a book from a library curated for the end of civilization, and read. What Will the Future Be Like? These Objects Help Us Imagine 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z “This is how we got here as a civilization, so if we don’t learn this, we’re not going to evolve.” The Art of the Thanksgiving Table 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z But culture was never apolitical in Venice, a fiercely independent city sitting at a crossroads of civilization. What Baroque Venice Can Teach Us About Modern-Day Politics 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z An opinion piece in The Washington Post called the lawsuit “a threat to Western civilization.” 6 Takeaways From Ed Sheeran’s ‘Let’s Get It On’ Copyright Case 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z She graduated from Northwestern in June with majors in history and in Middle East language and civilization, according to Pat Tremmel, Associate Director, Media Relations at Northwestern. 2 Chicago-area students are Rhodes Scholars 2011-11-20T19:11:00Z This complicated, not always coherent second movie by Ms. Rohrwacher observes a family transplanted from Germany to an Italian farm, where they turn their backs on modern civilization and eke out a living as beekeepers. At New York Film Festival, History and Detectives 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z The movie's title, "The Social Network," describes the opposite of Hobbes' State of Nature: a latticework of laws, traditions, social bonds and moral codes that binds one person to another and keeps civilization humming along. "The Social Network": A modern horror film 2010-10-04T18:01:00Z Some experts, however, say it is too harsh to judge White today by a changed set of collecting mores, especially given all of the work she has done to expand an understanding of ancient civilizations. At the Met, She Holds Court. At Home, She Held 71 Looted Antiquities. 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z They supply a different sort of adventure, one that involves getting far off the beaten path, in some cases beyond the bounds of civilization. Exploring Modern Ruins in Southern California 2014-03-19T21:24:02Z Gods and other legendary figures of writing are not limited to Western civilization. The 5,000-year history of writer’s block 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z Tarzan remains the man apart and the man in the middle, the uneasy, sometimes forlorn, sometimes exuberant bridge between civilization and nature, between the human and nonhuman animal world. Review: A ‘Tarzan’ With a Few Twists in the Hollywood Vine 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Every artist works within a frame, but James goes further back to earlier civilizations.” T Magazine: Seeing the Light 2013-05-09T18:01:22Z The Maya originated as a civilization around 1500 B.C. in an area covering all or parts of present-day Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico. Can Art Ever Be Innocent? 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z “The very fate of civilization is at stake,” said House Speaker Joseph Martin, a Republican, after the February 1948 Soviet coup d’état in Czechoslovakia. Why American Pragmatists Saved Postwar Europe 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z “End your weekend and start your week with a little bit of civilization,” Moss says. That old fussy china can fit your casual lifestyle. Designers talk about how. 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z Maybe it was his time playing one of civilization's most famous prophets, but Bale's prediction has proved spot-on. Ridley Scott's 'Exodus' casts a wide net of spectacle and family 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Its name in Greek means "between the rivers", a reference to the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that made it a rich center for agriculture, trade and a crossroads of civilizations. Amid jihadi gains, priceless Iraqi artefacts hit black market 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Inexplicably, the passing of a millennium and the murder of 7 billion people have given birth to a new civilization pretty much like ours. Review: Justin Cronin’s long-awaited ‘City of Mirrors’ 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Baker, in office with Bush at the time, says the world fundamentally changed after 40 years of living with the reminder “civilization might perish in a fiery hail of atoms.” Famed German orchestra to start US tour in Houston 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z As she talks about this last "dangerous game" that could decide the fate of future civilizations, Christina creates a simulation of the original Westworld park in the Sublime. "Westworld" season 4 ending explained 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z The biggest change is that the series’s tech tree — the flowchart that lets you decide how to advance your civilization — has become a tech web. Reviews: Sunset Overdrive, This War of Mine, Super Smash Bros. and Civilization 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z It’s about identifying the trappings of civilization in which we have imprisoned ourselves — dignity, pride, competitiveness — then letting them go. Going Backcountry, Three Ways 2013-05-17T18:47:13Z Shortly after we hiked past a 105-foot-diameter radar antenna at the Sondrestrom Upper Atmospheric Research Facility, all signs of civilization disappeared. Trekking through fire and ice on Greenland’s 102-mile Arctic Circle Trail 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Roger's legacy to me is the thing he talked about — empathy being one of the most important aspects of civilization. Chaz Ebert reflects on her late husband, Roger 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z Instead of the artist, democracy has the Zivilizationsliterat — an unwieldy German compound noun translated as “civilization’s literary man.” Thomas Mann on the Artist vs. the State 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z His investigations included, but were hardly limited to, Egyptian hieroglyphics, the civilizations of ancient China and Babylon, the natural elements, music, mathematics and optics. Why Andriessen's daring and difficult 'Theatre of the World' will stand the test of time 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z In 1961, the astronomer Frank Drake came up with an equation to estimate the abundance of communicative alien civilizations. UFO truthers want to make Roswell an issue for 2016. Meet their lobbyist. 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z We are accustomed to stories of Christians martyred by pagans, but Nixey reverses the narrative, describing in great detail the desecrations and destruction Christians wreaked upon pagans and classical civilization. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Reese, whose day job is chief executive of the technology research company Gigaom, begins by grounding the reader in what he sees as the three major changes in human civilization. Three Books Consider What Happens When the Robots Take Over 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z It stands to reason that such an advanced civilization might use that computing power to run an “ancestor simulation”—essentially, a high-powered version of the video game “The Sims,” focussed on their evolutionary history. What Are the Odds We Are Living in a Computer Simulation? 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z In 2051, an alien civilization is in the process of gobbling up humanity, requiring a worldwide draft of present-day citizens who will “jump” into the future to join the war effort. ‘The Tomorrow War’ Review: Future Schlock 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z And it is mind boggling how a nation with this kind of wealth can be this stingy about investing in the civic part of their civilization and culture. Wynton Marsalis Finds Solace in the Optimism of the Blues 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z I was quite happy to reach the civilization of a tavern. Imprint: My Upper Peninsula 2013-12-04T20:26:39Z Jonathan extols the primacy of print, even down to the choice of fonts: “Garamond. Cambria. Baskerville,” he muses, as if referring to lost civilizations. Review: In ‘Reverberation,’ Singles Adrift in the Big City 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z Both sites were homes to ancient civilizations and both are high in the Andean mountains of the same verdant, dramatically craggy country. In Peru, a Still-Hidden Alternative to Machu Picchu 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z He has a talent for profane rants about civilization’s downfall that he delivers in an Alabama drawl. Liked ‘Serial’? Here’s Why the True-Crime Podcast ‘S-Town’ Is Better 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z "Marco Polo" is sumptuous enough — it can be interesting just to look at, with its colorful sets and costumes, exotic locations and physical and digital realizations of a lost civilization. 'Marco Polo' leads Netflix into uncharted territory 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Massing’s 2018 book on Martin Luther and Desiderius Erasmus widens the scope on the Protestant Reformation and vividly describes how the rivalry between the two men set the course for much of Western civilization. New in Paperback: ‘Second Place’ and ‘Lady Bird Johnson’ 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Goulian wasn’t merely a dainty hothouse flower; in Hook’s mind he stood for the decline and eventual rout of Western civilization. Books of The Times: Why Be a Tree Stump When You Can Soar? 2011-05-18T00:52:01Z Other downtowners searched for food like post-apocalyptic survivalists, hoarding whatever they could find — cheap Chinese, bad pizza — on food runs to civilization. ‘Sandy Five’: Weight Gain Due to Storm 2012-11-07T22:40:49Z Newitz devotes space to debunking the popular notion that civilizations of the past “collapse” and become “lost,” pointing instead to indications of gradual change. Searching for Our Urban Future in the Ruins of the Past 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z The gardens of the Brazilian bourgeoisie were full of roses, geraniums, clipped hedges and other floral markers of Western “civilization.” This Brazilian artist and landscape architect was bound only by the limits of his imagination 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z Alaska’s long summer days, when there’s barely a hint of night to be found, relieve the worry of returning to civilization before dark. Seeking out Alaska’s Denali National Park in a summer of overcrowded outdoor spaces 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z The obstacles became so intense that at times the exhibition, devoted to the splendors of the ancient Buddhist civilization of Gandhara that flourished in northern Pakistan 2,000 years ago, almost foundered. Long-Delayed Show of Buddhist Art From Pakistan Is to Open 2011-07-26T22:48:05Z All I have left are shattered bits and fragments of the languages I tried to learn — my brain is like an archeological site, full of relics from earlier linguistic civilizations. Shakespeare in Klingon: Literature in the Original and My Total Failure to Read It That Way 2012-11-28T16:30:53Z Placing the action in the outer reaches of civilization lends more of a spaghetti-Western-meets-ronin-samurai vibe to the narrative, and this feels like a more intriguing and sustainable fuel for the longterm. The Force is strong with “The Mandalorian” debut, but not the glitchy Disney+ launch 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z With a tip of the hat, the Coens send viewers home to consider the nihilism at the core of civilization, the confrontation with death that defines life. Review: The Coen Brothers “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” Is Six Giddy, Cruel Twists on the Western 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z But as a stout defender of Western values, and with his easy mastery of third-world civilizations, Chandu is a forerunner of Indiana Jones. Presto! Pulp and Poetry: ‘Chandu the Magician’ and ‘Stranger on the Third Floor’ 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z The range and depth of those collections will allow the Louvre Abu Dhabi, which is being marketed as a “universal museum,” to show off the cultural achievements of civilizations from every corner of the world. Critic?s Notebook: Building Museums, and a Fresh Arab Identity 2010-11-29T19:10:00Z And what a current it is, starting with a discussion of dreams in the foundational myths of ancient civilizations and religions. The History of Dreams, From Greek Mythology to Last Night’s Sleep 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Located on the east coast of the Mediterranean, Lebanon was an important part of the classical world, home to the Phoenician civilization and part of the Persian and Roman empires. Ancient statues looted in Lebanese war returned decades later 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Mr. Hanks spoke recently to ArtsBeat about the creation of "Electric City," his thoughts on Internet content and the supreme importance of pizza to post-collapse civilization. ArtsBeat: Apocalypse Soon: Tom Hanks Discusses His Web Series 'Electric City' 2012-07-16T12:00:46Z That every culture, every civilization, every power - has been subject to. To Stay Married, Embrace Change 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z The dozen spindly corpses, curled into the fetal position or swaddled in baskets, belong to a lost pagan civilization around 2 1/2 millennia ago - long before the advent of Islam. Ancient mummies rot as Yemen war vexes even the dead 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z In 1876, the German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann began excavating the fabled city of Mycenae and, in uncovering treasure-laden grave circles of ancient kings, turned the world’s attention to the Mycenaean civilization. Unearthing Everyday Life at an Ancient Site in Greece 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z It will house, we are told, “one of the world’s most significant collections of objects, artifacts, artworks, textiles and information on the history and culture of the Maya civilization.” Critic’s Notebook: Maya Treasures Visit Los Angeles to Help Build a Musuem 2014-01-17T22:54:32Z What stands out in Stern’s quote is “high civilization.” Perspective | Sculpture parks are a great way to see art during a pandemic. Here’s why some are better than others. 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z What begins as an exploration of the effects of fracking on Native lands sprawls into a haunted history of an entire civilization. New Work From Two Masters of the Graphic Novel 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z Zhang, who grew up reading “Little House on the Prairie,” said she wanted to write a frontier adventure story that explored the loneliness of the immigrant experience, and the clash between civilization and wilderness. With a Chinese American Gunslinger, He’s Challenging the Whiteness of Westerns 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z Davies said filmmakers wanted to look at the beauty of Jerusalem, which is central to three religions, as well as to celebrate this part of the cornerstone of Western civilization. 'Jerusalem 3D' zooms in on power of ancient city with Imax intensity 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z Unscripted television might not represent the total decline and fall of civilization but, at the very least, much of it provides compelling evidence that we may be collectively tumbling into a depression. Smart Watch: Not all reality TV is trash! These unscripted shows are actually useful 2019-06-22T04:00:00Z Had so many centuries of civilization led only to this, a Mafia-infested area of ugly concrete, bad roads, poor zoning? Favorite Place: Seduced by Naples 2013-12-13T16:02:13Z In Mesoamerica, Mayan culture looked to Itzamná as the deity who provided the pillars of civilization: writing, calendars, medicine and worship rituals. The 5,000-year history of writer’s block 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z I heard in “Karawane” — its music more than its words — a sly musing on today’s religious tensions and so-called clashes of civilizations. Review: Philharmonic Goes Dada With Esa-Pekka Salonen’s ‘Karawane’ 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z They were transformed into helpful shoppers when we stopped to provision the refrigerator and pantry in St. George, Utah, the last major concentration of retail and civilization that we’d see on the trip. How I learned to stop worrying and love RV-ing “Separate Rooms” conjures its own complete, restless civilization. Review | New Joe Calarco drama ‘Separate Rooms’ debuts at emerging 4615 Theatre 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z Once roused, this mighty force of white saviors will take control, restore order, and reclaim Western civilization. Alt-right women and the "white baby challenge" 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z In his telling, Arendt’s bleak view of European civilization arose from her repeated displacement as a German-born Jew. ‘The Free World’ Explains How Culture Heated Up During the Cold War 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z “You will understand that this isn’t about an ancient civilization that died. The tradition of craftsmanship exists today. It has been passed down.” When a Visit to the Museum Becomes an Ethical Dilemma 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z “So in a way it’s sort of like bringing the bureaucracy, administration, civilization to a part of the world that hasn’t seen that by actually counting them as citizens.” A Simplified and Secretive Istanbul Biennial 2011-09-14T20:30:07Z As a narrator, he lacks the necessary vocabulary to describe this unknown civilization, opting for a perspective of bewilderment. Read Your Way Through Mexico City 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z Do you want to sense both the power and fragility of human civilization? Hanging 104 Floors Above Chicago, There?s No Time for Vertigo 2011-05-30T12:00:00Z Apart from its considerable historical interest, this is a movie about how civilization survives. Critic?s Notebook: Bucking Up the British in the Midst of the Fight 2011-05-19T20:42:35Z In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. Why read? Writers give 10 reasons 2013-04-23T16:13:44Z Baldwin speaks in poised, impassioned paragraphs and concludes that Western civilization will either be opened for all to enter or demolished by those excluded. The Glow From ‘The Fire Next Time’ 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z "It brings hope that we are more resilient than we think: that we will be here, that there will be trees, that there will be books, and readers, and civilization." David Mitchell has a new book, but you'll have to wait 98 years to read it 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z Set several years after its predecessor, "Dawn" pits a thriving ape civilization against an enclave of bedraggled humans recovering from a devastating global plague. 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes' a spectacular sequel to 'Rise' 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z Setting aside the curious notion of a crusade with a target of one, the clash of civilizations rhetoric she uses reveals another layer to the conflict. Why is it so threatening to say Muslim lives matter? 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z “In a lot of ways what brings a person out here is absence — of people, of civilization, everything,” Scott said. In California Desert, Father and Daughter Find the Sublime 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z But when he’s discovered by a beautiful teenage cancer patient, their romance leads James on a journey back to civilization. ArtsBeat: Hello, Ozzy: Tribeca Lineup Adds Ozzy Osbourne and Carol Channing Documentaries 2011-03-14T16:00:16Z Roads are lined with ruined remnants of a prior civilization, the one before a "Flash" -- which occurred during the last war -- tore a hole in the sky and brought fatal, scorching light onto the Earth. 2010-01-11T02:48:00Z You can gauge the health of a civilization by its hidden-camera television shows. ‘Freak Out’ ‘Deal With It’ Use Hidden Cameras 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z While the other nominated books are what, nowadays, we call “literary fiction,” “Station Eleven” is set in a familiar genre universe, in which a pandemic has destroyed civilization. A Better Way to Think About the Genre Debate 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z At this point we were knee-deep in pillows, like some Malthusian horde threatening to overflow the barricades of civilization. This Life: The Pillow Explosion Buries America 2012-02-11T01:08:02Z The moral, if there is one: Only a German scientist can neutralize the German alchemy that has the power to destroy civilization. Alchemy Amok in ‘Gold’ and Its Offspring, ‘The Magnetic Monster’ 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z The clash of civilizations assumes personal dimensions in the growth and change of Boyden’s charismatic, flawed and achingly human protagonists. ‘The Orenda,’ by Joseph Boyden The twin sandstone figures, called the Kneeling Attendants, flank the doorway of the gallery where the Met displays its small but globally significant collection of artifacts from the glory days of Khmer civilization. Cambodia to Ask Met to Return 10th-Century Statues 2012-06-01T20:01:07Z "He called Africa the cradle of civilization, took his cameras to Haiti, honored the hood with Snoop, broke bread with Obama like a human being," Twitty tweeted. "Stunned and saddened" by Anthony Bourdain's death, celebrities and peers honor great chef's legacy 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z Kevin Durand, the Canadian actor who plays Fet, considers his character an optimist who refuses to let the fall of civilization get him down, he said during a recent conference call with reporters. 'The Strain' recap: The Master, crispy around the edges, still lives 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z They were carved between the sixth and fourth centuries BC, when Lebanon’s Phoenician civilization was ruled by the Persian empire but influenced by Greek art and culture. Ancient statues return to Lebanon as war on smuggling intensifies 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z The Maya, like other ancient civilizations of Mexico, worshiped the jaguar as a deity, believing that it ruled the underworld and could move between worlds at will. The Return of the Jaguar 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Whatever you call it — the revenge of the nerds, the franchising of the universe, the collapse of civilization — it’s a force that is at once emancipatory and authoritarian, innocent and pathological, delightful and corrosive. Review: In ‘Ready Player One,’ Spielberg Plays the Nostalgia Game 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z Their civilizations have “long been ignored or underrated,” he writes, and the museum will help see “justice rendered.” Critic?s Notebook: Quai Branly Museum in Paris Glorifies the ?Other? 2011-11-25T23:47:39Z As a young man in prison Malcolm steeped himself not just in black history, Mr. Marable writes, but in “Herodotus, Kant, Nietzsche, and other historians and philosophers of Western civilization.” Books of The Times: Stripping Away Myth and Finding Multiple Masks 2011-04-07T13:56:45Z Many were about money, which he called civilization’s most coercive and violent force. Steve Ben Israel, Performance Artist, Dies at 74 2012-06-17T03:10:32Z Tut is all about the tomb, the afterlife and desperate immortality — a fantastically grandiose and convoluted system that would help define Western civilization for the next several thousand years. How good is the King Tut exhibition? An art critic weighs in 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z When “Pepper” came out, Time magazine declared it “a historic departure in the progress of music — any music,” while the London Times called the release “a decisive moment in the history of Western civilization.” Meet the critic who panned ‘Sgt. Pepper’ then discovered his speaker was busted. He’s still not sorry. 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z “As a trustee of my local library, I thank you very much for this piece! Librarians are, truly, defenders of civilization.” ‘Libraries, You Are My Heroes’: Readers Share Memories of a Favorite Haven 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z “I felt that I was seeing my homeland, a place untouched by civilization,” Mr. Polissky said. Journeys: Art Sprouts in Russia 2010-10-02T05:01:00Z But “First Winter” knows what it is: a stark metaphysical parable that contemplates the superficiality and fragility of modern civilization. Movie Review: ‘First Winter,’ a Benjamin Dickinson Film 2012-11-16T00:09:10Z Mr. Adams has written about his concerns about our changing ecology, and has lately been pondering a line attributed to the French Romantic writer Chateaubriand: “Forests precede civilizations, and deserts follow.” Review: A Pulitzer Sequel for Orchestra, Packed With Drama in Microcosm 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z Yet he also prophesied a world of “great politics” characterized by wars and revolutions fought over the very future of civilization. Two New Books Confront Nietzsche and His Ideas 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Surrounded by his models, I felt as if we were two giants, peering down on the ruins of a minuscule civilization. An Artist’s Obsession with the Ruins of His Homeland 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z The fictionalized American and Mexican world of "Red Dead Redemption" has its pockets of civilization — ranches, towns, forts, even cities — but the majority of the environment is scrubland and desert, cliffs and hills. Video game: 'Red Dead Redemption' is a shoot-em-up Western 2010-07-10T01:47:00Z In contrast to the coalitions that overthrew Mubarak and Gaddafi last year, Attila is a tyrant and a threat to civilization. Seattle Opera's 'Attila' a timely tale of warfare 2012-01-04T23:09:03Z In my novel “Big Black Ship,” I write about a non-human civilization that is not on planet Earth, and this civilization is developing according to its own history. The Russian Tom Clancy Is on the Front Lines for Real 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z “We are fighting on borders, on resources. . . . It would make us feel part of planet Earth as a civilization rather than individual countries voting on Brexit.” Harvard’s top astronomer says an alien ship may be among us — and he doesn’t care what his colleagues think 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z An all-encompassing treatise on modern civilization, offering bold revisions to canonical understandings in sociology, anthropology, archaeology and political philosophy that led to where we are today. Newly Published, From Haruki Murakami’s T-Shirts to Sally Hemings 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z Just as yours truly, an unapologetic urbanite, was starting to succumb to nature’s charm, civilization appeared like a speed bump. Looking to dodge Amsterdam’s crowds? There are three remarkable towns a short train ride away. 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Modern civilizations are haunted by crimes like this; “I, Olga Hepnarova” persuasively suggests that the only understanding we can have of them is a terrifying one. Review: ‘I, Olga Hepnarova,’ Carrying Out a Vow of Vengeance 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z Her goal, she continues, is to reintroduce self-government, law and order, commerce—a.k.a. civilization—to the face of the Earth. The Walking Dead Episode 13 Recap 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z To racist logic, just as the ancient Egyptian fashioners of human civilization must be White, God and his perfect god-son—the creators and saviors of humanity—must be White. The 15 most racist Oscar films of all time: Here’s why #OscarsSoWhite is not a surprise 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z He has been — with well-articulated reservations — an outspoken defender of the West and its values, a position almost unheard-of among playwrights, and even less so now that the words “Western civilization” require a trigger warning. It’s Tom Stoppard’s World and We Don’t Live in It 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z That affects our communities and our states and our nation and our civilization. MC5’s Wayne Kramer on why Trump is “very much so like Richard Nixon” 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z More unusual, a note tells us that the film doesn’t support or dispute any specific interpretation of ancient Indian civilization. Review: ‘Mohenjo Daro’ Depicts a Go-To Hero’s Exertions in Antiquity 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z He exists at the margins of civilization, outside the reach of the law, but his limitless capacity for violence coexists with a deep ethical code. Review: ‘Sicario: Day of the Soldado’ Blends War Movie and Western 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z “Where would American art be without Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol? Why would art museums exist if not to tell the story of imagination in the history of civilization?” Why Warhol Images Are Making Museums Nervous 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z As a civilization we’ve updated the way we get around, the way we buy plane tickets and so on. Your Vacation Mission? Find This Stolen Horse 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z A tradition of Western myth-making gained traction in the 19th century that insisted these battles between Greek city-states and the Persian Empire were a showdown over the fate of Western civilization itself. Zack Snyder and the West Should Stop Killing Ancient Persians 2014-03-10T14:33:58Z It seems to show that no matter how venerable a civilization is, its people are just people. Stifled poet in India 2013-01-08T01:00:00Z This led archaeologist Klaus Schmidt to propose that it was the thirst for ritual that led those hunter-gatherers to permanent settlement, paving the way for civilization. Burning Man highlights the primordial human need for ritual 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z Using resources, trade and military might, build civilizations that will allow you to construct the Seven Wonders of the World, from the Hanging Gardens of Babylon to the Great Pyramid of Giza. 12 board games that allow homebound Americans to travel in their imagination 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z Like the browned slices of lasagna that you can eat with your fingers, they’re street-fair food from a more advanced civilization. Can Fancy Chefs Excel at Fast, Cheap Food? Two Case Studies 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z If ever there was a movie where our civilization's first encounter with extraterrestrial life could be treated as an afterthought, this one is it. Love and loss in "Asteroid City": Wes Anderson's intoxicating alien-invasion meta-movie 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z Objects have long been considered a poor cousin to paintings, but not at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where two recent acquisitions spanning centuries and civilizations were as functional as they were decorative. Form, Function and Beauty Span Eons in Met Acquisitions 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z The lakes and forests of Minnesota’s Boundary Waters transport you to a time when nature was not a thing at the edge of civilization, but a world unto itself. 7 Great Reads to Distract You From the Election 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z One day, we were talking about intelligence—what composes it, how it’s manifest, agreeing that academic aptitude alone is not what propels civilization forward. Sex and Longing in Larry Sultan’s California Suburbs 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z The book spans some 7,000 years of human history, moving from the birth of civilization up to the present day. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: 21 Great Buildings Throughout History 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z On went the packs, and with a last glance around at the edge of civilization, we hiked. Under the big night sky: why we all feel so alone in the age of Trump 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z Yet unlike her former classmate Cy Twombly, another idiosyncratic admirer of ancient civilizations, she has rarely translated that obsession into an immediate and sensual experience. Art Review: From Theorems and Numbers, the Geometry of a Diverse Career 2011-07-21T22:35:53Z Modern Germany has been praised for its efforts to keep the dreadful memory of the Holocaust present for the generations born after what Hannah Arendt called the “break in civilization.” ‘Great Freedom’ and the Long Shadow of an Anti-Gay Law in Germany 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z The Hand is a fellowship dedicated to the destruction of flourishing cities and civilizations. Netflix’s “The Defenders” isn’t the best Marvel series, but it may be what we need right now 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z The “Worf as comic relief” thing also grew thin on me, like when he fell asleep on the bridge immediately after he is part of saving civilization again. ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Series Finale Recap: Saying Farewell 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z “Maybe, just maybe,” he suggested, Hollywood might make some films that actually improve civilization between now and the end of the century. Oscars 2015: A Scrum for Votes at the Governors Awards 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z During the ceremony, Kim thanked his soldiers for creating a “miracle and perfect edifice” within a year to help advance “the ruling party’s efforts to guide people to modern civilization,” per a state media report. North Korea opens ski resort, mountain spa in tourism promotion 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z As the flu epidemic takes down civilization, fantastical creatures begin to appear. The apocalypse, as imagined by Nora Roberts 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z On some level we know that civilization is fragile? Neil Gaiman Follows the Guiding Light of Instinct 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Hummer said, “A bomb would set back civilization for years.” Everyone Is Getting Hilariously Rich and You’re Not 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z “The fate of European civilization,” he asserted, “depends on European men,” who are “steadfastly resisting Politically Correct feminism.” How white supremacist hatred drives acts of violence against powerful women 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z “The whole building will be dominated by the idea of fiction, a civilization that never existed,” Mr. Bourriaud said. An Artist Who Appropriates With a Wink 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z Swinging in the treetop, I realized that the real reason to take a rustic vacation isn’t to escape crowds or the niceties of civilization; it’s to escape your own hang-ups. Going Backcountry, Three Ways 2013-05-17T18:47:13Z It was an ungraceful tumble back into civilization — and probably good practice for returning to the rough waters of non-Culebra life. A relatively undeveloped island off Puerto Rico mainland offers solitude (amid unexploded bombs) 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z It was only in extremity that civilization could be preserved. Pierre Klossowski Drawings Explore Eroticism and More 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z When he’s not serving the Governor or conducting scientific experiments, Milton maintains a historical record so that future generations will know how civilization survived in Woodbury. The Walking Dead Watch: The Arrow in the Door 2013-03-11T15:18:46Z Viewers are asked to interpret a lack of work discipline, schooling, or steady institution building of any kind — the primary building blocks of any civilization — as the height of liberation. Hushpuppy, anarchist antihero? 2012-08-09T19:40:00Z Staying in one place for long periods is a large part of what allowed this civilization to evolve to such a magnificent apogee in a harsh desert landscape. Searching for the Ancestral Puebloans 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z The Moche civilization flourished on Peru's northern coast between about the years 1 and 800 CE, a rural area of the South American country made up largely of farmers and fishermen. Digital reconstruction reveals true face of ancient Peru warrior 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Before he lorded over civilization's inch-by-inch decline he was a Cincinnati politician – a councilman first, although he was forced to resign in 1974 after he was caught soliciting a sex worker with a check. Jerry Springer, talk TV's ringmaster, leaves an entertainment legacy we'll be living with for years 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z “In the distant future, if human civilization survives and spreads through the cosmos, humanity must create technological marvels at ultra-grand scales,” Liu wrote to me. Liu Cixin Is China’s Answer to Arthur C. Clarke 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z Those trains were moving across the plains “to freedom, to civilization,” Ms. Campbell explained. Clyfford Still Museum in Denver 2011-11-20T05:00:34Z Children’s books, she once said, are “the key to the accumulated wisdom, wit, gossip, truth, myth, history, philosophy, and recipes for salting potatoes during the past 6,000 years of civilization.” E. L. Konigsburg, Author, Is Dead at 83 2013-04-23T02:33:47Z It's not the canon of Western civilization so much as works that can be seen as deriving from or on the side of the oppressed, who are untainted by history. The war on culture: How conservatives and progressives joined forces to crush art 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z If language is a technology—prone, like any other, to weaponization or obsoletion—will ours lead us out of dystopia, or only further into it, winding up an arcane relic of some fallen civilization? The Apocalyptic Visions of Ariana Reines 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z Inside lay the remains of the greatest ruler of one of the greatest cities of one of the ancient world’s greatest civilizations. Mexico’s mysterious Mayan ruins at Palenque, now accessible from the air They’re looking at different propositions for how to live and how to interact with objects and leftovers from other parts of so-called civilization.” Ben Rivers’s ‘Two Years at Sea’ and ‘Slow Action’ 2012-10-07T05:03:01Z A seasoned traveler can dip in here for a few days and emerge with an unforgettable memory of civilization’s jungle edge. Iquitos, Peru: Wet and Wild 2013-09-13T17:49:30Z One of Mann’s great insights was that a civilization decays from within. At Thomas Mann’s House, the German President Defends Democracy 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z In the late '90s, Dugin became very famous and influential with the book "Foundations of Geopolitics," which argues that there is a basic primal struggle between two fundamental civilizations on the planet. Donald Trump’s “chaos magic”: Author Gary Lachman on the far right’s links to occult phil... 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Non-simulated people, meanwhile, may retire on the proceeds from their investments in the accelerated and increasingly autonomous em economy—a pleasant vantage point from which to observe the twilight of non-emulated civilization. What Are the Odds We Are Living in a Computer Simulation? 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Rarely does a single accord return one of the world’s great civilizations to center stage, but the recent nuclear agreement with the UN Security Council may well accomplish that for Iran. These Are the Best Places to Travel in 2016 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z It’s hard not to see this place as an archaeologist might, gazing at the once-great civilization that flourished here. ‘Low Winter Sun’ Gives Detroit a Leading Role 2013-08-02T12:00:19Z Returned to the ostensible safety of civilization, Martin noticed that the things people said to her were often oblivious and cruel. ‘In the Eye of the Wild,’ a Haunting Memoir About Life After a Bear Attack 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z “The climate system that raised us, and raised everything we now know as human culture and civilization, is now, like a parent, dead,” he writes. In ‘The Uninhabitable Earth,’ Apocalypse Is Now 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z The British astronomer Stanford Thayer oversees the project, believing that an advanced civilization on Mars will see the conflagration and a dialogue between the planets will begin. ‘The Slippage,’ by Ben Greenman, and More 2013-04-24T21:29:52Z The disturbing impression is of time running backward, of civilization devolving. Art In Review: Andra Ursuta: ‘Magical Terrorism’ 2012-09-27T19:57:59Z In it, the protagonist discovers a hidden African civilization called Telassar that has retreated from the world and so was able to escape the ravages of colonialism and the trans-Atlantic slave trade. In "Rumors," Lizzo and Cardi B pull from the ancient Greeks, putting a new twist on an old tradition 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z Combating threats like climate change, nuclear war and A.I. unraveling civilization requires global cooperation, Brown argues; market dynamics won’t prevent the worst from happening. Apocalypse Anxiety, the Musical 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z Nowhere is this metaphor more obvious than Tender, a recipe-finding app modeled on the infamous dating app Tinder, which — depending on whom you ask — is either the future of romance or the downfall of civilization. Tender is Tinder for recipes, but with similarly disappointing choices 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z His passion for preservation is driven by his memories of a Mosul in which different communities lived peacefully together surrounded by reminders of the ancient Mesopotamian civilizations that helped shape the modern world. Using Laser Scanners to Preserve Antiquities in ISIS’s Cross Hairs 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z The plot, in which civilization topples as women abandon their responsibilities in favor of another quick buzz, feels just as sloppy — a haphazard, battery-operated “Brave New World.” Book World: ‘Beautiful You’ by Chuck Palahniuk It’s the end of civilization, and it’s also business as usual. Even Superheroes Punch the Clock 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z Sex was a characteristic of early Hindu civilizations in a way that was arguably more explicit than any scene in "Oppenheimer." Defending that "Oppenheimer" sex scene as a Hindu woman who delved into my religion's sacred truths 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z Paulina represents authority as a natural force — benevolent and wise — not manufactured by a civilization that arbitrarily invests power in a crown. | 'The Winter's Tale': The Cool Ferocity of a King Inflamed by Jealousy 2011-07-24T22:32:50Z One insightful way to assess a civilization: what the people put on their heads, how they portrayed the human head and what that meant in terms of identity, prestige and spirituality. From 12th Century B.C. to 2017, Art in Startling Variety 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Russians, for their part, claim Rus as the birthplace of their own culture, the foundation of a larger Slav civilization with Moscow at its center. The Myths That Made, and Still Make, Russia 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z I think one of the things that is true of Western civilization now is the huge disequilibrium between the day-to-day comfort that we feel, and the threat that we know is based in reality. Marilynne Robinson talks religion, fear and the American spirit: “The left, at a basic level, lost courage, because they don’t know how to deal with the proclaimed religiosity of the other side” 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z "This was on the eve of the First World War, which of course ended the dream of progress and so-called European civilization." Knightley stars in film on birth of psychoanalysis 2011-09-02T14:29:06Z Carteret attempts to quell the violence, shouting, “Gentlemen, this is murder, it is madness; it is a disgrace to our city, to our state, to our civilization.” America's legacy of racial terror and Charles W. Chesnutt's "The Marrow of Tradition" 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z The movie not only broods upon the nature of freedom and cost of civilization but also wonders what it might mean to imagine oneself divine. ‘Gods of Egypt’ and ‘Alexander the Great’: Let Me Polish That Breastplate 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z In two television-quality studios here, the company puts academics and other experts in front of cameras to record courses on a wide range of subjects — game theory, photography, ancient civilizations, differential equations, cooking with spices. The Great Courses Require Great Production 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z They had a class together — Western civilization — and a friendship between them quickly developed on their morning bus rides to school. Laura Mitchell, Oliver Tully 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z Imagine having a head-of-state-in-waiting who, instead of tweeting about the “Impeachment Hoax,” regularly says things like, “If we wish to maintain our civilization, then we must look after the Earth.” Can “The Crown” Make Us Crush on Prince Charles? 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z “The origins of cool are grounded in the performance of relaxed calm to cover the loss of belief in Western civilization.” Boldly Saddling Up 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Kline’s earnest warnings about the effects of climate change are still blunt — the immediate greed of energy and tech and lifestyle companies will still doom our civilization, if not the world, to a watery end. Josh Kline: Living in the Ruined World 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Kubrick, then 24, would revisit the themes of courage versus fear, civilization versus barbarity and class versus class on the battlefield in “Paths of Glory” four years later and regularly throughout his career. ArtsBeat Blog: Channel Surfing: 'Fear and Desire' 2011-12-14T21:30:34Z “These buildings recall the evolution of Khmer civilization — they connect the past to the present,” he continued. Next Stop: A Pocket of the Past in Battambang, Cambodia 2011-12-15T21:22:50Z But what will later generations make of our civilization? Review | ‘Civilizations’ is the most ambitious story about art ever told on television 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z Naturally, this sends civilization on a slow death-spiral of degrading hopes. How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z Mr. Junger’s premise is simple: Modern civilization may be swell, giving us unimaginable autonomy and material bounty. Review: Sebastian Junger’s ‘Tribe’ Examines Disbanded Brothers Returning to a Divided Country 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z In 1926, Harrison and Mirrlees returned to London, where Harrison learned Icelandic and studied Persian, “the richest civilization I have touched yet.” The Power Women of Mecklenburgh Square 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z “Even in the late 1990s the West was still clearly the dominant civilization of the world,” he writes. Books of The Times: Niall Ferguson?s ?Empire? Traces West?s Decline - Review 2011-11-14T19:50:39Z She is speaking about sand, but she might be talking about Western civilization when she praises the “array of colors of even the pulverized world.” He’s 101, She’s 32, and It’s the End of the World 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z The much anticipated ninth installment in the X-Men film series, the movie finds the mutants pooling their powers to try to stop Apocalypse, a god-like mutant, from his quest to destroy civilization. Watch the Mutants Fight Oscar Isaac's Villain in the New 'X-Men: Apocalypse' Trailer 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Central to Mann’s argument in both “Thoughts in Wartime” and “Reflections” is a distinction between “civilization” and “culture.” Thomas Mann on the Artist vs. the State 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Some are relatively serene, but most suggest ruined sites in which a small sign of civilization has remained intact. Museum & Gallery Listings for April 4-10 2014-04-03T22:48:07Z We want to tell a story about civilization vs. untouched nature. Westerns saddle up for TV comeback 2011-11-03T12:33:02Z There is a strain of social commentary in songs like “Electrified,” which evokes our wired civilization, but their attitude is more wry than outraged. Music Review: Ben Sollee at the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse 2013-04-21T21:09:07Z I’m looking roughly at the era an undergraduate survey of Western civilization might define as modern history. The Greatest 2011-01-07T16:04:57Z Far from so-called civilization and wanting in many resources, it was an environment in which prisoners were obliged to form functioning communities or die. ‘Sepa: Our Lord of Miracles’ Review: A Prison in the Amazon Jungle 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z Eventually, there will be so many people on the Moon that they will be a culture and a civilization of their own. "I don't want to be L. Ron Hubbard": Andy Weir on writing escapism & new book "Project Hail Mary" 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z The massacre was a war crime supervised by peacekeepers — a failure of institutional resolve, of humanity, of civilization. ‘Quo Vadis, Aida?’ Review: Life and Death in Srebrenica 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z Q. The ancient Romans used concrete, but it disappeared with their civilization, only to be rediscovered more than a thousand years later. | Q&A: French Designer Matali Crasset on Her Concrete Collection 2013-01-23T23:51:15Z But isn't it just as morally wrong to reboot civilization in an alternate timeline as it was to despoil the Earth that lies dying on the other end of the wormhole? Civilization gets a prehistoric reboot in "Terra Nova" 2011-09-27T01:45:00Z Bookended by rock walls on either side, Saline offers few signs of civilization — perhaps that’s why many tend to enjoy the beach au naturel. 36 Hours in St. Barts 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z What stretches the story beyond the visceral pain that Flanagan brings to life is the attention he pays to these prisoners as individuals and their efforts to cling to the trappings of civilization. The ten best books of 2014 It tethered us to our machines and reaffirmed our notions of modern civilization. “The Tinkerers”: How corporations kill creativity 2012-12-30T17:00:00Z Nick Offerman meditates on his travels across America, a diversity coach narrates a manual for race-conscious parenting, and two academics rewrite the history of human civilization in our latest roundup. Newly Published, From Haruki Murakami’s T-Shirts to Sally Hemings 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z The third record is the decline of civilization. Big Star's third album finally gets star treatment 2011-03-23T22:16:48Z “What was the last great civilization that gorged and vomited over and over again? Andy? THE ROMANS!” Rainn Wilson mocks hipster foodies: “It makes me sick” 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z At their apogee, the Sex Pistols inspired pundits on the evening news to ponder, in all seriousness, whether the decline of Western civilization had finally arrived. Afternoon Beers With a Former Sex Pistol 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z In “Black Sun,” the first book in a projected trilogy, she draws on pre-Columbian civilizations to tell an epic story, centering on a mysterious young man, Serapio, who sets out to avenge a crime. 17 New Books to Watch For in October 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z The art collection in the upper gallery reaches across two millenniums, from early Indian civilization to the colonial period and up to the 20th century. Three Cities on the Mexican Independence Trail 2010-08-20T17:51:00Z Before heading back to civilization, I tallied up the number of people and pieces of trash we had seen on the Tuscarora: zero and zero. Fall foliage is coming, and so are the hikers. Here’s how to find trails less traveled. 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z In particular I vowed to break the habit of seizing on every bad movie as a sign that civilization was collapsing. 2010-01-08T03:34:00Z He doesn’t quote Dostoyevsky, but I will: “The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” ‘Solitary’ Is an Uncommonly Powerful Memoir About Four Decades in Confinement 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z He was his generation’s greatest practitioner of that gentle paradox, the elegiac comedy, which considered the passing of the civilization he grew up in. A Patrician Older Gentleman Morphs Into an Angry Young Man 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z The show hangs loosely — very loosely — on a theme about the possibilities for happiness after civilizations crumble. | 'Heaven on Earth': Civilizations End, but Does Happiness? 2011-02-21T22:30:43Z “Ultimately, though,” he said, “I found the job of reconstructing the life of a man more interesting than reconstructing a dead civilization.” Henry-Louis de La Grange, Mahler Authority, Is Dead at 92 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z The truth is, I come here partly to escape the din of more populated places, the wearying abrasion of what passes for civilization in a technological age. T Magazine: Dream Weaver 2012-05-14T14:00:44Z "They are the founders of great civilization, but they end up broke," Seinfeld quipped. Jerry Seinfeld's empires satire goes to Broadway 2010-10-12T19:43:00Z “Generation Wealth” posits that extreme spending is a symptom of a civilization in decline. The New Spiritual Consumerism 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z A starting point for me was that I didn’t want there to be any references to civilization. Nix Nought Nothing: New music from “The Cold Lands” 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z On the one side, postmodernism, “a revolt against the basic traditions of Western civilization.” Hilton Kramer, Critic Who Championed Modernism, Dies at 84 2012-03-27T16:08:52Z By depicting an African civilization as the epitome of technological advancement and a model society, the film broke barriers and delivered a message about our opportunity as future Black leaders and communities. Seattle-area community members pay tribute to some of the cultural figures we lost in 2020 2021-01-02T05:00:00Z Not only will the effects of anthropogenic global warming push civilization to the brink, but studies reveal a connection between societal instability and terrorism. Trump’s scandals are dangerous: Because they’re distracting us from the grave threats to human civilization 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z After a long climb up a set of steep, twisting stairs, we reemerge into civilization. Beneath the bustling streets of Paris, the Catacombs are silent as the grave 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z They began by gazing out confidently from the peaks of 19th-century Western civilization and claiming everything that was closer to nature than to culture as their domain, including fossils, wildlife and non-Western peoples. Critic?s Notebook: Quai Branly Museum in Paris Glorifies the ?Other? 2011-11-25T23:47:39Z It seems like a passage left behind by a lost civilization. Taking the Plunge at the New Volcano Bay Water Park in Orlando 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z Before I dismiss this futile bread-shelf as another marker of civilization in decline – which, don’t worry, I am about to do – I’ll admit I wasn’t always brilliant at cutting bread. Kitchen gadgets review: Evenslice bread slicer – ‘not the best thing since sliced bread' 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z Each set of men seems to represent starkly different worlds, as if they were emissaries from civilization and its discontents. Review: Blood Is Never Simple in ‘The Sisters Brothers’ 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z It is more Film Forum than Sundance, but was a welcome dose of funky civilization amid all the fresh air and hearty outdoor activity that the area is famous for. New Zealand for Beginners 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z The Apulian civilization, which arose in southern Italy along the Adriatic Sea from the 9th to the 3rd century B.C., was influenced by nearby Greek colonies. Looking for a Stolen Idol? Visit the Museum of the Manhattan D.A. 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z Return to civilization, Jimmy insists, and face the consequences. 'Better Call Saul' recap: Jimmy's hustler nature prevails 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z In graduate school, Harvard, Aaron was among the first to complete a new program of study, American civilization, a melting pot of "history, literature, art and politics." Daniel Aaron, a pioneering scholar of American studies and the first president of the Library of America, has died at age 103 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Sexton’s book reads as a series of TED talks, addressed to people who are interested in thinking about college in lofty, abstract terms—a matter of civilization rather than the immediate needs of citizens. The Professor and the Adjunct 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Caught in the chaos of a zombie apocalypse, both must decide what type of people they are going to be as civilization crumbles. How Fear the Walking Dead Created a Better Hero Than The Walking Dead' 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z "My culture is one of the oldest civilizations in the world," he wrote. Mahjong Line apologizes after cultural appropriation accusations 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z After a day of hiking around Chaco I tooled north a few hours, heading for the ruins of another great Puebloan civilization, at Mesa Verde National Park. Searching for the Ancestral Puebloans 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Both probably attributable to anxiety over, say, the impending death of civilization. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Don’t worry, I have got it covid 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z We parked, on went the packs, Cherry’s larger than mine, and with a last glance around at the edge of civilization we hiked. Hidden from the newscycle and healed 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z We soon dropped down to a valley, and the sounds of civilization were replaced by the crunch of our feet against rocks and dried leaves. You, Too, Can Be a ‘Thru-Hiker’ 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z Governments have collapsed, but civilization has, in small pockets, regrouped. Review: In ‘Station Eleven,’ the World Ends, Beautifully 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Discovering the arts center in Sun Valley felt like finding “civilization,” she said. Tina Barney: The Photographer’s Origin Story 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z In "Station Eleven," a pandemic collapses civilization and the remaining human survivors must find ways, and reasons, to live on. Survival tips from TV we didn't know we needed 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z The year is 1889, and the ability to “forge,” or transmute, physical matter into marvelous art, invention and weapons, determines a civilization’s might. Fascinating Alternate Histories in Four New Novels 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z The half-baked logistics of Erica's plan highlighted another failure of the show, its inability to conceive an alien civilization except as a slightly modified version of whatever we have on Earth right this minute. "V": How to fix ABC's struggling alien invasion series 2011-02-22T15:40:00Z A course he took in ancient civilizations stoked his desire to explore their art. Bill Arnett, Collector and Promoter of Little-Known Black Art, Dies at 81 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z The city’s truest anti-MoMA, the Frick becomes the latest front in a larger battle to prevent nonprofit outposts of civilization from falling prey to the bigger-is-better paradigm. The Case Against a Mammoth Frick Collection Addition 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z Before hospitality was a business, it was more of a virtue — a barometer of civilization. What Is Hospitality? The Current Answer Doesn’t Work. 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z “This civilization is not only for Syria, but we are the custodians of it and we preserve it for the world,” said Khalil Hariri, head of the Palmyra antiquities department. Palmyra priest statue among haul of recovered Syrian relics 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Obaid said the location was chosen to “replace the themes of dictatorship and tyranny with civilization and humanity.” Iraqi dictator’s palace becomes museum 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z The measuring of time may be the defining act of civilization. Museum Review: National Watch & Clock Museum, Columbia, Pa. - Review 2011-09-08T22:42:06Z The attack on that Las Vegas audience was an attack on civilization. The audience, under fire: Why survival of culture depends on protection from guns 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z It threatens both the web of living species with which we share the planet and the future viability of civilization. ‘The Sixth Extinction,’ by Elizabeth Kolbert 2014-02-10T18:47:42Z Versailles City Guide:Paris A crowning achievement of civilization, or proof of the excess of unchecked monarchs? Paris: Side Trips 2010-12-16T13:08:44Z At the same time, her imagery hints at future civilizations rather than past ones; crisscrossing arcs and networked tubes evoke science-fiction infrastructure. ‘Lee Bontecou: Drawn Worlds,’ an Artist’s Other Side 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Although the family’s home stream runs just outside of Missoula, a town of some 71,000, it remains remarkably unspoiled, tucked away from the surrounding hallmarks of civilization like a secret world. Fly-Fishing in Montana, Where a River Still Runs Through It 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z Modern civilization doesn’t work if people behave like isolationists. How to stop world catastrophe 2012-06-12T00:00:00Z Artists added to civilization by opposing the familiar, the common, the trivial and the complacent. Perspective | John F. Kennedy became a hero to American art lovers — but he wasn’t one himself 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z Since then, “good style” has come to represent to me all the things about human civilization that make it seem like it’s worth the trouble. “If your child needs socking, sock him!”: How reading about pregnancy almost ruined me 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z Relative to other Iron Age civilizations, the jar makers remain mysterious, and I was attracted to this hole in the historical record. Footsteps: In Laos, the Lady and the Jars 2012-07-13T16:23:26Z A political theme also asserts itself: These replicants are an enslaved labor force; their exploitation is the fuel on which this civilization runs. Review: ‘Blade Runner 2049’ Tries to Honor the Original and to Slip Free of It 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z Are we sinking towards something like Roman civilization, when bloodthirsty spectators eagerly watched men fight to the death in the name of entertainment, now just on high-def screens? As Fitbits for Feelings Emerge, Whither Empathy? 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z Reynolds takes the study of World War I out of the trenches, where it has been mired for nearly a century, and looks at its effects upon nations, democracy, empire, capitalism, civilization and peace. 50 notable works of nonfiction It arrives with a thesis, namely that a useful way of thinking about East and West, this supposed clash of civilizations, is to think of them as “Wet and Dry, Alcoholic and Prohibited.” Books of The Times: Lawrence Osborne’s Alcohol Quest in ‘The Wet and the Dry’ 2013-07-23T18:57:11Z But the icons on view are not important pieces of painting and sculpture or rare artifacts unearthed from faraway civilizations. | Connecticut: At the Bruce Museum, Gowns as Works of Art 2010-07-10T00:08:00Z In that movie, the bright sun exposes fissures in the relationship between the characters played by George Sanders and Ingrid Bergman, who also seemed haunted by the ghosts of vanished civilizations. Movie Review: ‘Before Midnight,’ With Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke 2013-05-23T16:15:43Z Mesopotamia, part of modern-day Iraq, was among the earliest civilizations. Amid jihadi gains, priceless Iraqi artefacts hit black market 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Critics of Mr. Deitch, and there are many, hold their noses at his apparent indifference to art-world hierarchies, equating his appointment with the death of civilization. A Risk-Taker?s Debut 2011-04-22T22:34:11Z We are here to contemplate a civilization that has been declining, with sighs and kisses and world-weary lyricism, for a very long time. Review: Sorrentino’s ‘Youth’: A Euro Buddy Film 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z That’s the idea of his next project, his most ambitious yet: a massively multiplayer game in which players create civilization from the ground up, “from arrowheads to iPhones, from scratch,” he said. Jason Rohrer and the Art of the Video Game 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z I joined occasionally, but the rules involving face cards seemed so complex and ever-changing that I imagined they must be rooted in the complex ancient civilization of the Incas. An Amazon Cruise for $17 a Day. Hammock Not Included 2010-06-23T03:00:00Z After the United States dropped the atomic bombs, Hersey wrote that if civilization was to mean anything, people had to acknowledge the humanity of their enemies. The Reporter Who Told the World About the Bomb 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z “It is time to finally form our own idea about ourselves as the heirs of a great, unique Russian civilization,” Mr. Medinsky reportedly wrote. Russia Bans Tom Hardy Thriller From Theaters 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z “It’s up to people like us to set the example,” he tells Eli as they discuss whether to kill a man suspected of causing them trouble, “because if we don’t, this whole civilization slides backward.” Review: Pierce Brosnan Proves He’s No Texan in ‘The Son’ 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z Around 3:15 we pulled into Red Lodge: former coal boomtown, site of a bank robbery by the Sundance Kid, rest stop for Calamity Jane, and the last stretch of civilization before Beartooth Pass. A Rookie’s Road Trip Through Montana, Wyoming and Idaho 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z Grains like rice, wheat and corn make civilization possible. Our tropical fruits are vulnerable to climate change. Can we make them resilient in time? 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z With these jarring clashes of civilizations and faiths, Mr. Vo returns the favor of the cultural vandalism that is a colonialist privilege. Danh Vo: An Artist at the Crossroads of History and Diary 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z She has carried civilization into the wilderness and in the face of adversity has upheld its values of cleanliness, godliness and culture. ‘The Homesman’ Stars Hilary Swank and Tommy Lee Jones 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z It is this belief, in the supremacy and almost supernatural power of truth, that fuels the various forces of civilization. In 'The Jinx,' Durst reminds us of the narrative power of crime dramas 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z As Pete’s personal life spirals out of control, Pearl’s radical break from civilization offers an alluring kind of solace, a relief from his complicated failings. ‘Fourth of July Creek,’ by Smith Henderson If their previous rate of travel is any indication, they should make it to civilization three winters from now. ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 7 Finale: A Night for Family Reunions 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z As with many of those westerns, it's a morality tale, rigorously controlling pace and mood to facilitate an examination of savagery, justice and our notions of civilization. ArtsBeat: Channel Surfing: 'The Walking Dead's Latest Victim 2012-10-15T04:27:17Z At Baghdad University, he spent mornings studying the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia and afternoons studying European art. Mourning Iraq’s Destruction, a Native Son Creates 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z Scheduled to open June 2, the museum, which cost about $65 million, is devoted to the civilization of ancient Rome and its legacy in Nimes. In the south of France, Nimes celebrates and preserves ancient Rome 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z That might be a suitable place for the pitiable humans remaining to contemplate the errors of our supposedly enlightened civilization. 'The Flooded Earth': Peter Ward's vision of a world awash in the consequences of climate change 2010-06-10T20:50:00Z He received a doctoral degree in Near Eastern languages and civilizations from Harvard. Alice Rha, Robert Ames 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z Having broken a Starfleet rule by intervening in a prehistoric civilization, they run for their lives, like Bob Hope and Bing Crosby high-tailing it out of Zanzibar after one of their schemes went kaflooey. Star Trek Into Darkness: The Young and the Reckless 2013-05-13T19:01:26Z It treated the never-ending story of human civilization as an unfolding and evolving body of knowledge. Perspective | In the dumbest and darkest of times, Alex Trebek maintained a safe space for intelligence 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z Almost everyone nods, and freshman Matt Jacobsen, who came to Harvard from an Iowa farm town, volunteers quietly: “There was speculation that it was from another civilization.” Harvard’s top astronomer says an alien ship may be among us — and he doesn’t care what his colleagues think 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Already during a visit to United States in 1906, he voiced his esteem for Black Americans struggling to live dignified lives within “a civilization they are grudged and denied.” Review | H.G. Wells wanted to change the world. A new book explores the author’s outsize ambitions 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z In ancient Etruscan civilization, antefixes were lively terra-cotta objects that often depicted female figures crowned by diadems, a jeweled crown or headband. Looking for a Stolen Idol? Visit the Museum of the Manhattan D.A. 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z Mr. Cahill intended for the book to be the first in a seven-part series about critical moments in Western European civilization, what he called the “Hinges of History.” Thomas Cahill, Popular Writer of Ireland’s History, Dies at 82 2022-10-30T04:00:00Z “The museum did come clean here,” said Christopher A. Rollston, an associate professor of Near Eastern languages and civilizations at George Washington University who reviewed the findings about the scrolls. Bible Museum, Admitting Mistakes, Tries to Convert Its Critics 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z It raises big issues about what we think “civilization” is, the long history of turning our enemies into “barbarians” and why it might be “us” who are the barbarians, not “them.” Mary Beard Would Like a Moratorium on Churchill Biographies, Thank You 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z “These buildings are artifacts of a fallen civilization,” he told AD on the eve of the show’s opening. David LaChapelle's Latest Photographs Lure Viewers with Glowing Relics 2014-01-24T05:00:00Z Over the course of two hours, I was given a whirlwind introduction to Cádiz’s historical importance — why, as a gateway to the Mediterranean, it was so sought after by successive civilizations. Cádiz, an Underrated Corner of Spain 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z "To leave people to die at sea is a sign of a great lack of civilization, for a country that proclaims itself civilized," he said. Italian films tackle immigration at Venice fest 2011-09-05T12:38:44Z Edmondson said it was "about the fall of civilization", adding: "It's Lord of the Flies meets The Office." Neville's Island play makes a splash 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z The earliest civilizations throughout Africa, Europe and Asia had music. Who invented music? The search for stone flutes, clay whistles and the dawn of song 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z Chalk it up to post-World War II realism, demographic changes, bravado, freedom, permissiveness, the Beats, the 1960s, hip-hop, the Internet, the decline of Western civilization or all of them at once. On the Pop Charts, Singing the Unspeakable 2011-03-15T16:00:06Z In that sense the clock may even be a mechanical model of civilization’s own project, both in how it measures time and in the fact that it succeeds in measuring it at all. Museum Review: National Watch & Clock Museum, Columbia, Pa. - Review 2011-09-08T22:42:06Z As civilization began, it became apparent that the human race was imperfectly suited for it. Blame it on the baby boomers: Yes, pretty much everything 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z The cinematographer, David Pluth, captures their adventures in colorful banks of images that dance across the screen like postcards from the edge of civilization. Movie Review: ‘Ikland’ Documents a Visit to a Vilified Tribe 2012-06-14T23:54:20Z A vision of both human civilization at its most celestial and human energy at its most brilliantly refined, it’s one of the most exalted peaks of Balanchine’s idea of classical style. Even Balanchine’s Arithmetic Contains Drama 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z No, these things are the bedrock of civilization and should forevermore remain jellied in cultural aspic. Thomas the Tank Engine, neocolonial fantasy: What his new international pals, and the backlash against them, signal 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z The main event of contemporary civilization is never, on any given day, the main event. Inventing Climate-Change Literature 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z As you wend your way back to civilization — and Los Angeles traffic — it is a thought that you’ll want to hold onto. Exploring Modern Ruins in Southern California 2014-03-19T21:24:02Z A city created, like great geological formations, of time-sculptured and overlapping strata, Delhi is seven cities at least and almost as many civilizations collapsed, accreted and jumbled into one. India in One, Two or Three Weeks 2012-03-23T18:57:13Z Because the ultimate fruit of civilization is to allow her or anyone to believe they’re deciding what their life will be like. “I Don’t Think Character Exists Anymore”: A Conversation with Rachel Cusk 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z Mr. Shin did not spend his imprisonment missing love, joy, civilization or comfort, because he had never experienced such things. Books of The Times: ?Escape From Camp 14,? by Blaine Harden 2012-04-11T21:17:16Z The ambitious novel follows the plight of the male survivors of a superior human civilization, reduced to lonely refugees by the annihilation of their home planet. Lord brings Caribbean voice to science fiction 2013-02-11T13:43:08Z Perhaps the most obvious manifestation of her insatiable reading, the emails in “Beautiful World” between Alice and Eileen — about Late Bronze Age civilization, babies, Édouard Manet and organized religion — are no contrivance. ‘It Was Like I’d Never Done It Before’: How Sally Rooney Wrote Again 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z If ever there was a movie where our civilization's first encounter with extraterrestrial life could be treated as an afterthought, this one is it. Love and loss in "Asteroid City": Wes Anderson's intoxicating alien-invasion meta-movie 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z The museum’s website explains that the sculptures “convey the influences between Egyptian, Persian, Greek and Roman” civilizations, and argues they are best presented in this context. As Europe Returns Artifacts, Britain Stays Silent 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z I was an urban frontiersman bushwhacking through the hinterlands of civilization. How I found the perfect koshary — an Egyptian delicacy — in Cairo 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z But Islamic civilization left a deep mark in Andalusia during seven centuries of domination that ended when Christian forces expelled the Moors with the fall of Granada in 1492. In Spain, Searching for Ancestors, Dry Wine and Calm Seas 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z And to the Hollywood and the hearts and minds of people everywhere, repression is the enemy of civilization. The Best-Picture Mixup: It Was ‘La La Land,’ Until It Was ‘Moonlight’ 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z He seems to be creating a body of work about freakish homemade microcultures — in a country whose rich literary patrimony lies at the basis of Western civilization. film: Yorgos Lanthimos?s ?Dogtooth,? a Family Parable 2010-06-24T22:17:00Z Each efficiently sounds the alarm that nobody is steering civilization's tillers anymore. HBO Max's must-watch "Station Eleven" brings comfort and joy after the eerily familiar apocalypse 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z Does this say something about the way we’re looking at our own civilization right now? 2009-12-17T01:16:00Z The title story, “The Island of Coffins” transports the reader/listener to a small isle cut off from civilization since the 1920s. Review | Old mysteries and adventure stories deliver a dose of Grand Guignol theatricality and nonstop comic-book action 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z As soon as things are organized, whole countries and so-called civilizations, whole cultures and peoples, will very quickly act as if that’s just who they are. Philip Gourevitch: Memory is a disease 2012-09-26T20:31:00Z Viewers can witness hijackings and suicide bombings without losing sleep because debonair agents defend Western civilization and crack wise as they crack heads and global conspiracies. 2010-01-15T04:09:00Z Herbal mixtures, which some consider to be remedies, date back to the very mists of civilization. Sidle Up to This Bar for an Herbal Infusion 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z The other side of that image is that the hillbilly and their culture are a problem that "civilization" has to eradicate. Historian Anthony Harkins on the real story of white poverty and "Hillbilly Elegy" 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z What Travis-Henikoff found was that civilization is rife with the practice of humans noshing on each other — and that it’s rarely born of psychosis. 10,000 germ species per human 2012-06-13T17:20:00Z Stephen Greenblatt took the nonfiction honor for "The Swerve," an account of the rediscovery of a work by the Latin poet Lucretius and what it meant for civilization. National Book Awards, and a question 2011-11-17T19:31:08Z With the hope of filling in gaps about the early Greek civilization, archaeologists over the past three decades have sought out towns in lieu of palaces and tombs. Unearthing Everyday Life at an Ancient Site in Greece 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z The unpublished mural discoveries point to the radically different path charted by Teotihuacan, which thrived from about 100 B.C. to 550 A.D., compared to other ancient civilizations. Stylish suburbs: how ancient Mexican metropolis dodged inequality trap 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z As in "The Passage," published in 2010, Cronin presents multiple storylines, one as the virus takes hold and civilization falls apart and others a few generations later as the world tries to redefine what's normal. Review: Justin Cronin returns to apocalyptic saga 2013-01-07T17:16:05Z It is difficult to overstate White’s contributions to the arts and to the study of ancient civilizations. At the Met, She Holds Court. At Home, She Held 71 Looted Antiquities. 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z This piece of philosophical whimsy tells of an aging woman who saves civilization from the rampages of predatory capitalism. A pack of Parisian oddballs take on the corporate elite 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z The new video purports to show nothing less than the beheading of an entire civilization. The Mosul Museum video from Islamic State could be a staged drama 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z "We have a great educational system that is — it’s really a triumph of the civilization," she said. President Obama interviews author Marilynne Robinson 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z Instead Jaeger lays bear the spiritual ennui of a leisured civilization without real purpose. Review | Muriel Jaeger, a trailblazing science fiction author, deserves a new look 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z Later in the series, he claims that civilization has something to do with “energy,” remarking, “Vigor, energy, vitality: all the civilizations—or civilizing epochs—have had a weight of energy behind them.” The Seductive Enthusiasm of Kenneth Clark’s “Civilisation” 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z From the water it looks like another time — when nature was not a thing that grew at the edge of civilization, but a world unto itself in which humans were guests. On the Water, and Into the Wild 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Club writes, "That vision would be considered a super power to blind people, who have managed to restore civilization without it — smacks of ableism, but that isn't 'See's' only trouble." "See" recap: Manure, rain and still no war 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z I think that what he was often doing, sometimes clumsily and unartfully, was grappling with history, memory and civilization. Godard Taught Me How to Watch Cinema, Even as He Kept Reinventing It 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z This is the basic problem at the root of civilization. The Miracle Cure for All Our Energy Woes? 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z If you want to learn about what civilization is and why it matters, look it up. Review: Anodyne ‘Civilizations’ 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z As one of the people Isaacs interviewed remarked, “One feels that a people who have evolved such food must have high qualities and a high civilization.” Chinese Food and the Joy of Inauthentic Cooking 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z A superior civilization demanded deference and tribute from vassal neighbors and did not hesitate to use military force. America’s Collision Course With China 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z James left New York and Boston behind and set up in London and Rye; American civilization was insufficiently complicated for him, but Americans as individuals interested him a great deal. Beyond Expectations: Rereading Dickens 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z His followers, too, walked away from civilization, and likewise didn’t arrive anywhere. The Square 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z For Marty, architecture was something purely imagined: “When other boys were playing football, I was in my room, drawing whole worlds — people, buildings, civilizations that did not exist.” | Striking a Balance 2014-04-09T15:00:26Z The idea of urbanites pining to throw off the shackles of soul-corrupting civilization and to found a rural utopia is certainly believable, even banal. Theater Review: ‘Cherokee,’ Lisa D’Amour’s New Play, Opens in Philadelphia 2014-01-31T22:22:10Z Where Peckinpah was borderline nihilistic, Lurie is unabashedly humanist, simultaneously celebrating and mourning the primal savagery we all harbor within us — a savagery that has been lulled into dormancy by civilization. 'Straw Dogs': Remake crackles with tension 2011-09-15T19:20:10Z Reciting Jewish achievements and Judaism’s contribution to civilization in order to fight anti-Semitic propaganda is a well-established genre that flourished in 19th-century Europe. How Jews Have Made an Impact on the Modern World 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z There was “civilization, scholarship, lineage and royalty before the Africans were stolen and brought to these shores,” she said. ‘Roots,’ Remade for a New Era 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z But for a few hours, you can happily lose yourself in an utterly artificial world that also marks a moment of high civilization. Essay: In Europe, Sharing Moments With History 2012-10-10T20:43:02Z In mysterious pictures such as “Topless,” in which a pier fades into the mist, the seaside seems a place where civilization might simply evaporate. In the galleries: Bodies that are more than flesh and bone 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z Syria stood at the heart of the ancient Middle East, a crucible for some of the world’s earliest civilizations and was at times incorporated into Egyptian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Hittite, Persian, Greek and Roman empires. Palmyra priest statue among haul of recovered Syrian relics 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z By then she had come to certain conclusions about the jar makers — that they were sedentary farmers, for instance, who traded with neighboring civilizations. Footsteps: In Laos, the Lady and the Jars 2012-07-13T16:23:26Z Presented as a fossil left behind by an extinct civilization, the sculpture hums with the residue of time, not unlike “Exposure.” The clever conceptual riddles of Tatsuo Kawaguchi 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z But, as the introductory title card explains, haunted dolls have been around “since the beginning of civilization,” which leaves room for Annabelle to pop up many times again. ‘Annabelle’ Takes Place Before ‘The Conjuring’ 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Viewers are put in the unexpected position of being archaeologists confronting the distant rituals of some lost civilization: Can those folks really be doing what they seem to be doing? "May Contain Explicit Imagery" at CB1 Gallery 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z But for people hoping to get away from it all and to isolate themselves from civilization, Krolow is not going to be able to help. Private islands: reality TV and the internet help drive a booming market 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z Backup chants sound like remnants of past civilizations; the beat is mechanized, cybernetic. The Playlist: Vampire Weekend’s Plucky Return, and 15 More New Songs 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z It was built over a century ago to glorify Leopold’s colonial exploits and to convince Belgium citizens that their country was delivering civilization to the heart of wild Africa. As protests grow, Belgium faces its racist colonial past 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z The region was once the center of Buddhist civilization that took root under the Mauryan king Ashoka 2,300 years ago. Pakistan unveils 1,700-year-old sleeping Buddha, evoking diverse heritage 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z He received a doctorate in the history of American civilization at Harvard in 1965. Robert Sklar, Film Scholar, Is Dead at 74 2011-07-06T22:38:51Z But it reaches further back than that, virtually to the beginnings of civilization. A Brief History of Slapstick Humor 2010-10-18T08:00:00Z A once powerful, now collapsing civilization in the grip of a deranged megalomaniac? New in L.A. theater: 'Herland,' 'Harvey' and the porn musical 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Harkaway uses this remote Superfund site to sketch the hideous underbelly of modern civilization. ‘Tigerman,’ by Nick Harkaway By the 17th century, whale oil powered western civilization, and the North American whaling industry, centred in Massachusetts, was its epicentre. How one man died so a whale might live 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z All but challenging Wikipedia to a verbal duel, the organizations said in a news release that the series “will be the definitive account of human civilization.” ArtsBeat: BBC and Discovery Channel Join Forces for 'History of the World' 2010-11-22T18:09:00Z And because it’s Twitter, naturally someone suggested that modern civilization should collapse, which would certainly get the job done. Perspective | 6 ideas for curbing our obesity epidemic 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Mr. de Grey scorns the waste of a civilization resigned to the idea of dying, but his composure breaks when he realizes that his mother’s death leaves him no remaining family. ‘The Immortalists’: Two Paths to Outwitting Death 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z "Why are you stealing the identity and civilizations of other countries? I pity you." Netflix accused of "Blackwashing" docudrama "Queen Cleopatra" 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z The arrival of “Mad Men” dovetailed with the resurgence of this grand old cocktail, as mixologists and laymen alike reclaimed the potion and held it aloft like an artifact from a lost, great civilization. A Drink as Comfortable as an Old-Fashioned, Don Draper?s Cocktail of Choice 2012-03-20T22:20:50Z By 1891, depressed and destitute, he sailed to the tropics, searching for a paradise that would free him of European civilization, and everything that he considered "artificial and conventional." 'Gauguin & Polynesia' tickets on sale Tuesday 2011-10-29T00:15:04Z A good couples therapist might be able to guide the two of you through some sessions where you, experimentally, reveal things that unconsciously you fear will destroy all civilization if they are revealed. Are fibs deal breakers? 2013-05-13T00:00:00Z The movie, in which Fawcett goes in search of a previously unknown civilization in the Amazon, is a throwback to old-school cinema, a thrilling adventure epic about a character worth rooting for. ‘Lost City of Z’ alters history for the sake of modern audiences. Are we okay with that? 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z But you can’t expand forever; perhaps it would be better, another character suggests, to establish a “self-sufficient, introspective civilization.” Liu Cixin Is China’s Answer to Arthur C. Clarke 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z With metal discs and four elaborate rosettes on its back, it looks like a computer console from an alien civilization. At Salon Art + Design, Gold Bracelets and Lipstick-Red Monochromes 2023-11-12T05:00:00Z “The Leftovers” puts rational people in irrational circumstances, and lets the layers of civilization slowly unpeel. 'The Leftovers' Recap: Trying to Explain What Cannot Be Explained 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z She added that the item dates to the vast Assyrian civilization, and that it was likely stolen from what is now Hebron, in the West Bank. U.S. Officials Repatriate a Looted Relic to the Palestinian Authority 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z The greatest forces shaping civilization today require us to reconsider the best and worst of developmentalism, and Latin American innovation, if we hope to survive as a species. MoMA and the architects of a Latin American design revolution 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z “The home was once a one-story block dairy barn, located near a loosely graveled road a half mile beyond other signs of civilization in Lakewood Addition, along Louisville Road,” said the 1971 article. Early Cormac McCarthy Interviews Rediscovered 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z She expertly lays out how we went from ape to civilization, what animals we feared and ate along the way, and how changes in environment drove changes in our bodies, brains and behaviors. Welcome to the Ruthless, Cutthroat World of Paleoanthropology 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z As Figes says, paraphrasing Kenneth Clark, “all the great advances in civilization . . . have been during periods of the utmost internationalism, when people, ideas and artistic creations circulated freely between nations.” Review | A welcome reminder that there’s value to being a citizen of the world 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z Parker is not a welcome guest, but Moreau, recognizing his duty to a fellow representative of civilization, allows him into his fortresslike compound. DVD: New on Blu-ray: Erle C. Kenton?s ?Island of Lost Souls? 2011-10-22T02:53:02Z He called artists "the relevant voice of civilization" and hoped they would help the world "see the better side of who and what we are as a species". Oscar in hand, Harry Belafonte exhorts Hollywood on human rights 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z But just as important, it serves — in Figes’s closing words — “as a reminder of the unifying force of European civilization, which Europe’s nations ignore at their peril.” Review | A welcome reminder that there’s value to being a citizen of the world 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z Some say the book’s overarching message — that stories will outlast political clashes, wars, the collapse of empires and civilizations — has taken on a heightened resonance in light of what Rushdie has endured. Salman Rushdie Has a New Book, and a Message: ‘Words Are the Only Victors’ 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z “I’m the child of Mesoamerican civilizations, even if my veins have blood from many parts of the world,” Huerta said. Tenoch Huerta Mejía and the Beauty of Representation in ‘Wakanda Forever’ 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z Mowgli is so transfixed by this image of womanhood that it compels him to stick around and see what civilization is like. “I blamed Adam Sandler for ruining my life” 2014-03-21T17:08:00Z Chongqing emerges as the book’s Inferno, a recurring shorthand for how civilization’s “highest cultural expression,” the city, has “given way to a machine which produces and consumes.” Venice is just the beginning — the West is sinking into a sea of commerce 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z After touring the oldest remnants of Yucatán civilization, we set out for its newest frontier. Shaped by Mérida’s Artistic Soul 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z In a civilization ruined by cellphones and flip-flops, he is ink and paper, corduroy and tweed. Alan Bennett’s Latest Nonfiction 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Where Thomas Aquinas, in his thirteenth century “Summa Theologica,” wished to systematize all of Christian doctrine, Lem wrote a secular organon of human civilization’s entanglement with machines. The Beautiful Mind-Bending of Stanislaw Lem 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z They are creatures of our own raw civilization and selfish society.” Theater Review: ‘The Henrietta,’ a Comedy Set in 1887, Resonates Today 2013-06-18T17:56:55Z The exhibition, which runs through March 6, focuses heavily on the Sumerian civilization that flourished between 3500 B.C. and 1800 B.C. in what is now southern Iraq. Hunting for the Dawn of Writing, When Prehistory Became History 2010-10-19T21:55:00Z In “Little Dancer,” the art of ballet becomes a cruel example of how civilization and oppression were entwined. ‘Little Dancer’: Big roles for women in the Susan Stroman, Tiler Peck ballet musical Beyond the reach of civilization, however, wolf packs probably would make a healthier, speedier comeback than humans. Survival tips from TV we didn't know we needed 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z Among those who believe we are not alone in the universe, 60 percent said we should try to seek contact with alien civilizations, it found. Are Earthlings alone? Half of humans believe in alien life 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z “It’s pretty clear on the face of things that we’re going through a major shift as a civilization, and that shift has to do with letting go of ways that aren’t working,” he said. Meditation Apps Want Us to Chill Out. Musicians Are Happy to Help. 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z Among those who believe we are not alone in the universe, 60 percent said we should try to seek contact with alien civilizations, it found. Are Earthlings alone? Half of humans believe in alien life 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z Three hundred years ago, residents of Western civilizations tended to cook, socialize, and even sleep in close, unprotected quarters. Why a city block can be one of the loneliest places on earth 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z Controlled by a computer program and using specially treated steel mesh material as a screen, it shows shifting, multicolored images of feathers meant to symbolize the dawn of justice in Western civilization. Public art projects in Long Beach, Willowbrook win national award 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z The archaeological remains of civilizations stretching back thousands of years are spread all over Greece. Greek police recovers ancient statue from goat pen 2012-03-28T15:31:22Z Just last month, Mr. Prager posted on Twitter that “the news media in the West pose a far greater danger to Western civilization than Russia does.” Santa Monica Symphony Roiled by Conservative Guest Conductor 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z "It’s a little glimmer of hope in a season of highly depressing news cycles, that affirms we are in with a chance of civilization in 100 years," he said. David Mitchell has a new book, but you'll have to wait 98 years to read it 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z “Noble savage”-loving Rousseau, critic Leslie Fiedler wrote, is our real founding father, and our early literature is about men fleeing civilization and book learnin’ for an unmediated experience with nature at its most raw. Steal this album: What happens if no one pays for music? 2012-06-20T11:45:00Z It is the year 3781 and civilization has not only recovered but has developed beyond the level it was at in the mid-twentieth century. A Science-Fiction Classic Still Smolders 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z In this she directly channeled her late father, who tried to unite his family to the end and spent his down time symbolically assembling a model of Old Valyria, a civilization fated to collapse. ‘House of the Dragon’ Season 1 Finale Recap: The Angriest Dragon 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z There is, after all, something mythic about the idea of an advanced civilization perishing overnight in some single vast cataclysm. Weird suburbia: How atomic bombs and UFOs created modern America 2014-03-16T18:00:00Z Psychology Today warned that the change meant “the end of Western civilization,” or at least signaled “a decline in our standard of living.” Frank W. Lewis, Master of the Cryptic Crossword, Dies at 98 2010-12-03T06:30:00Z To achieve victory, players must either be the last civilization standing or be the first to build a spaceship and reach Alpha Centauri. 'Civ' creator surprised gamer played for a decade 2012-06-14T19:27:11Z Speaking in a recorded message released Thursday, with a wooden cross atop his desk, Alvim said he wants 2020 to mark a historic cultural rebirth to “create a new and thriving Brazilian civilization”. Far-right Bolsonaro fires latest round in Brazil culture war 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z Heavy industry, civilizations thousands of years old, the horrors of slavery, wilderness, hawks, and turtles. Along the Mississippi 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z Bryson captures the alienating shift in perception that attends a return to civilization from an extended stay in the wilderness, and uses that weird lens to inspect the more grotesque aspects of American society. Why the Most Popular Hiking Memoirs Don’t Go the Distance 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z “Each of the four timepieces tells the story of a different ancient civilization,” Mr. Selmoni said. Intricate Timepieces, Inspired by the Louvre 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z Once they was celebrated for bringing civilization to the natives; here they are condemned for colonial abuses. Exhibition Review: ‘The Library Re-Imagined,’ at the Huntington 2013-12-20T22:18:50Z Will this growing constituency become a formidable political force before global warming decimates civilization? Five atheists who ruin it for everyone else 2012-08-04T14:01:00Z Despite the didacticism characteristic of Utopian novels, Morris offers an inspiring vision of a peaceful, creative civilization built on useful work instead of useless toil. Review | A look at the post-apocalyptic world envisioned in the novel ‘After London’ 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z Busking is deeply rooted in cultural history and dates back to ancient civilizations. “You can come here, be a professional teddy bear and actually make a living”: New Orleans buskers give life to French Quarter 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z The Nobel was seen, Lovell writes, as something that would “affirm China as a powerful, modern, international civilization.” Can a Big Government Push Bring the Nobel Prize in Literature to South Korea? 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Worse, women engaging in men’s work “unsexed” themselves by taking on male roles, and thus supposedly male traits, rendering them unable to have the children that would sustain civilization. The battle for medicine’s soul: A century of alternative remedies 2014-01-19T19:00:00Z But maybe civilization isn’t so much declining as merely making its periodic return to the lowest common denominator. ‘Freak Out’ ‘Deal With It’ Use Hidden Cameras 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z The intricately painted ceramic vessels, carved sculptures and ornaments on display offer a window into the ancient civilization’s complex mythology and understanding of humanity. At These American Museums, You Can Travel the World 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z In these celebrations of civilization, Indigenous people often played the role of the “uncivilized.” New Red Order: Artists With a Call to ‘Give It Back’ 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z This, more than anything else, signals their defiance towards a civilization that seeks to annihilate them. Arundhati Roy | Gandhi, but with guns | Part Four 2010-03-27T09:00:00Z The Getty Museum’s “Golden Kingdoms” exhibition brings together the luxurious crafts of pre-Columbian civilization in the Americas. Essential Arts & Culture: A 2017 rewind, lots of 'Nutcracker' and Bach, art and selfie marketing 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z What stimulated the Greek sculptural revolution, recognized to this day as among the crowning glories of Western civilization? Review | From the Pharaohs to Cleopatra and Julius Caesar: how Egypt influenced Greece and Rome 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Recall that “ape not kill ape” is the political and moral foundation of ape civilization, handed down by Caesar, their Moses, though he hasn’t always obeyed this commandment. Review: New ‘Planet of the Apes’ Makes You Root Against Your Species 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z “Voyage to Italy” takes place in a series of simultaneous aftermaths — of World War II, of a glorious ancient civilization, of Uncle Homer’s wild life, of whatever passion once united Katherine and Alex. Movie Review: Rossellini’s ‘Voyage to Italy,’ With Ingrid Bergman 2013-04-30T21:07:27Z Advertisement Advertisement Dark though its subject matter is, “Eclipsed” has moments of warmth and even humor, as the women try to buoy one another’s spirits and maintain some modicum of civilization. Review: In ‘Eclipsed,’ Female Captives in Liberia’s Civil War Seek Sustenance 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z We are living in a global civilization, with economic, environmental, and political concerns that transcend national boundaries. Sam Harris talks Islam, ISIS, atheism, GOP madness: “We are confronting people, in dozens of countries, who despise more or less everything that we value” 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z When civilization couldn’t answer his questions, Dial turned to the wilderness, sneaking illegally into Corcovado with help from a poacher. His Son Hiked Into the Costa Rican Jungle, and Never Came Out. What Happened? 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z Theater was, for Adler, what was left in the world once you took away God and the great traditions of European civilization. Books of The Times: ‘Stella Adler on America’s Master Playwrights,’ Lectures 2012-08-30T14:03:07Z In the interview, Julien chided Barnes for limiting his support of Black art to the work of African civilizations and not collecting the output of his own African American contemporaries. Questioning the Place of Black Art in a White Man’s Collection 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z He fears “total war” and “extinction,” not just of Western values but of civilization itself. A Survivor Recalls the Charlie Hebdo Massacre and a Long Road to Recovery 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z Dressed in a leather jacket and beaten-up brimmed hat, he travels the world looking for artifacts from long-ago civilizations. Indiana Jones exhibit shows how movies, science influence each other 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z The railroad brought civilization to the West and tamed towns like Deadwood.” Before the profane delights of "Deadwood," silver-tongued "Tombstone" rode in 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z But her fights have employed words and an attempt at reasoned debate, while Ms. Siddiqui left those things, and civilization, behind. Books of The Times: ?Wanted Women: Faith, Lies & the War on Terror? - Review 2012-01-15T23:49:30Z “Every leap of civilization was built off the backs of slaves,” says Leto’s character in the trailer. See Gosling, Ford, Leto in the ominous, thrilling “Blade Runner 2049″ trailer 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z Contemporary viewers may find, in this painting and the rest of the Frick show, their own meditations on the waning of great civilizations. That Visionary Wharf Rat, J.M.W. Turner 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Evoking a Trinidadian performance of the Hindu epic “The Ramayana,” Walcott begins his 1992 Nobel Lecture by celebrating the hybrid beauty of Caribbean civilization. In Praise of Derek Walcott’s Epic of the Americas 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z His under-loved last film, “The Lost City of Z,” tracks an early-20th-century explorer who travels far into the Amazon carrying the sins of Western civilization with him. ‘Ad Astra’ Review: Brad Pitt Orbits the Powers of Darkness 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z But culture was never apolitical in Venice, a fiercely independent city located at a crossroads of civilization. At Carnegie Hall, Political Jewels From Old Venice That Still Shine 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z Lee’s dystopian novel opens on a wasted landscape where the remnants of civilization survive in stratified compounds walled off from the lawless scrap heap of North America. The top 50 fiction books for 2014 Don't be surprised if the film is embraced by Christian filmgoers as the Holy Bible is seen as the point from which a new civilization can take shape. 2010-01-11T02:48:00Z Then the last sign of civilization disappeared, and we found ourselves in a sea of sand. Next Stop: Luxury Camping in the Oman Desert 2011-02-25T21:55:00Z Time keeps passing on the server—this civilization, like human civilization, will be one long ongoing situation—so if you wait a while before playing again, society will likely have progressed. Jason Rohrer and the Art of the Video Game 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z At one time or another during these episodes, each of has wondered what kinds of women they would be if they hadn't been lost to civilization for 19 months. Now and then: How "Yellowjackets" purposefully reminds Gen Xers of who we thought we'd be 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z Indeed, literature is “the same as democracy and civilization,” he writes in a hyperbolic generalization that is typical of the book’s rhetorical pitch. Thomas Mann on the Artist vs. the State 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z It’s extremely strange how long the question of the existence and nature of parallel civilizations took to emerge in the European mind — perhaps not really until the 18th century. ArtsBeat: Peter Whitfield Talks About the History of Travel Literature 2012-03-14T14:30:34Z The basic premise is that in what remains of civilization 500 years from now, society is divided into hierarchies run by barons and powered by “cogs,” or slaves. Smart Watch: "What We Do In the Shadows" is a comedy with bite 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z An objection immediately pops to mind: Aren’t the enemies of civilization also an energetic lot? The Seductive Enthusiasm of Kenneth Clark’s “Civilisation” 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z "We seek out new life and new civilizations," Pike tells his crew. Boldly take us where we've been, Captain Pike 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z The residents of this marine civilization have extravagant names like azure demoiselles, pewter angelfish, painted frogfish and saddle butterflyfish. Favorite Place: Sharing Paradise With the Barracuda 2012-09-07T17:12:11Z “Athens seemed to be the place where contradictions meet: ‘the cradle of civilization’ affected by crisis and debt, its citizens enduring a lasting uncertainty as to their future,” Mr. Szymczyk said. In Athens, Austerity Makes Contemporary Art Palatable 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z In Daniel Sousa’s ghostly “Feral,” a wild child discovered by a hunter in a forest is brought back to civilization, where he doesn’t fit in. | 'The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2014': Oscar Shorts, From Surreal to Oh So Real 2014-01-30T22:56:19Z One part is about the "clash of civilizations" between American political conservatives and international terrorists. Al Jazeera English maps out 9/11 coverage 2011-09-08T19:04:09Z ‘When civilization ends, it happens fast’ When this episode started, I thought there was nothing creepier than an empty school. Fear the Walking Dead: Season one, episode two – So Close, Yet So Far 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z It was only in hindsight, after a world war and the dark years of Communism, that he really was able to write what he felt about that swath of civilization. Q&A: Reflecting on a Writer’s Walk Through Europe 2014-03-21T16:44:21Z “He was looking at various civilizations and forms of art and responding to the art of his time,” she said. Yves Saint Laurent Takes Paris 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z Lush portraits of brilliantly wealthy Dutch traders boast of their status and success, with their ships roaming the globe and their leading city the pinnacle of European civilization. European art comes alive when you learn the story behind it 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z And there she is with that soaring arm, unsleeping, motionless but moving, a fixed image amid the elements of surrounding nature and urban civilization. Statue of Liberty, Viewed From Afar With Affection 2012-07-03T17:57:32Z They were carved between the sixth and fourth centuries BC, when Lebanon’s Phoenician civilization was ruled by the Persian empire but influenced by Greek art and culture. Ancient statues return to Lebanon as war on smuggling intensifies 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z It is also where the 1389 Battle of Kosovo, a defining event in the creation myth of Serbian civilization, took place. The Medieval Monasteries of Kosovo 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z Pushed beyond the roles imposed by their common master, man and mastiff unravel a knot of domination that can’t be maintained without the subordination of animals to human beings, wilderness to “civilization.” Fleeing a Caribbean Plantation Into a Mythic Wilderness 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z Pointing to a very different aspect of these civilizations’ heritage, the adornments, utensils and textiles gathered here, most made with precious materials, all demonstrate dazzling sophistication. At the Met, All That Dazzles Is Not Just Gold — It’s Feathers, Too 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z And blissfully free of the usual sounds of civilization. T Magazine: Le Shack 2011-08-19T14:30:50Z Heizer’s 1½-mile-long sculpture “City” is a collection of enormous ceremonial mounds and abstract forms made of earth, rock and concrete that evoke both the ruins of ancient civilizations and industrial technology. Obama designates Nevada site of Heizer's 'City' a national monument 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z “Yemen was a cradle to many civilizations and a home to multiple faiths, particularly Judaism, Christianity and Islam, which all thrived here,” Yemen’s culture minister, Marwan Dammaj, said in New York on Wednesday. Yemen Asks U.S. for Help to Curb Smuggling of Looted Ancient Artifacts 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z The Dubois artifacts are from a time before human civilization, before the Earth was divided into countries, so they can have no true national affiliation. Dispute Over Java Man Raises a Question: Who Owns Prehistory? 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z The new unscripted series "Search For the Lost Giants" investigates tall tales about an ancient civilization. TV This Week Nov. 2 - 8: The Game, 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z The Indians, cowboys, bears and buffalo are metaphors for psychological energies and possibilities that modern civilization must keep in check if people are to function properly in its market-based system. Art Review: ‘The American West in Bronze’ at the Met 2013-12-19T22:56:12Z Others depicted ancient civilizations that emerged on river banks and creatures that live in river waters, including one wing of crawling dancers dressed as alligators. Rio's Portela wins Carnival samba school parade with water theme 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z This year's theme, "Metropolis," examines "untidy hubs of social interaction" as it charts "the daily course of city life and the future prospect of civilization." Armed with grommets, hard hats and burlap, Seattle's sober Free society builds a 'Mant Farm' at Burning Man 2010 2010-08-30T04:34:00Z Let's answer his question with another question: Do we want them to understand our civilization as it really was, or as we wish it had been? "Smash His Camera": The man who stalked Jackie O. 2010-07-31T00:30:00Z Again and again, in sermons and private conversations, I was told that civilization outside of WBC was made up of sinners, alcoholics, drug addicts, and lost souls with no moral compass. Growing up in Westboro Baptist Church: We were “true believers,” everyone else the enemy 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z And it wasn’t just his discovery, which would have helped overturn years of science arguing that a major civilization could never exist in such a harsh climate, but also something else: his extravagant life. Goodbye, iPhone. Farewell, Brooklyn. Let’s move to Honduras and camp with jaguars 2013-01-05T20:00:00Z Framework Convention on Climate Change, which is the treaty that creates the yearly COP that is the negotiating process by which we hope to save civilization. What was COP26? A slog, a spectacle — and, for one youthful delegation, an opportunity. 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z Frostburg is a college town, so offers a rare spot of civilization, including some lively restaurants and bars. On a General’s Trail, Summoning America’s History 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Scarcely 15 minutes later it was as if we were hundreds of miles from civilization. Tucson Is a City That Encourages You to Explore 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z Writing during World War II, George Orwell remarked upon the contrast between the “gentleness” that characterized contemporary English civilization and the “brutality” that had distinguished English life a hundred years earlier. Transforming Britain From Brutality to Gentleness 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z “Every civilization gets the theater it deserves, and we get ‘Miss Saigon,’ which means we can now say definitively that our civilization is over,” he wrote. Michael Feingold, Forceful Drama Critic, Dies at 77 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z “A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original,” Abbey warned, “is cutting itself off from its origins.” President Trump, Please Read ‘Desert Solitaire’ 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z And this book is their attempt to uncover the details of their lost civilization — a pre-smartphone era where serendipity ruled — to today’s youth. A Capacious New History of the Beastie Boys by the Two Who Remain 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z There will also be some serious events, like “The Racist History of Math” on June 6, which will explore how math education has varied throughout various civilizations and cultures. The Underground Science Festival Has New Faces to Introduce to You 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z These few acres of land — arguably the most important piece of real estate in Western civilization — were the ancient center for politics, religion and commerce. Seeing ancient Rome: The things that were Caesar’s 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z Stone and His Stoners Face the Weed Killers The 19th-century historian Frederick Jackson Turner described the Western frontier as “the meeting point between savagery and civilization.” | 'Savages': Review: ‘Savages,’ Oliver Stone’s Adaptation of Don Winslow’s Novel 2012-07-05T16:02:31Z In a more recent epoch, the writers of Victorian England, fogged over with puritan fears and piqued perhaps by bursts of scientific revelations, contemplated civilization’s fall to plague, beast and Martian. Disaster Films Plague the Box Office 2013-07-19T18:26:49Z Originally from Oakland, Calif., Ms. Lei, 38, earned a bachelor’s degree in fine arts and Asian languages and civilizations from Amherst College, and a master’s degree in arts administration from Columbia University’s Teachers College. For Them, Opportunity Knocked Twice 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z “It’s this incredibly, discordant mash-up of vibrant natural life with heaps of trash and the discards of human civilization,” says Kusama, still in awe at seeing giant carp swim past overturned grocery carts. Karyn Kusama has been through ‘dark times’ in Hollywood. But her movies are even darker. 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z Professor McNeill’s book looked beyond Europe to argue that the dynamic give and take between civilizations and nations over five millenniums defined global history and spurred the rise of the West since 1500. William H. McNeill, Professor and Prolific Author, Dies at 98 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z The collapse of civilization is one thread in a multilayered narrative that spans decades, from the prepandemic era to 20 years after the disaster. ‘Station Eleven’ Joins Fall’s Crop of Dystopian Novels 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z A golden statue of a European missionary holding an African child with a plaque that reads: “Belgium brings civilization to Congo”, will remain on show, but its historical context will be explained. King Leopold's ghost: Belgium's Africa museum to reopen 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z My father moved on to other endeavors, including writing a book about the potential consequences of human contact with alien civilizations. Dungeons & Dragons Saved My Life 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z How might they perceive our lives — this advanced civilization for whom every facet of our existence, from elation to exhaustion, is merely edu-tainment about the human experience? The Reality Behind ‘Below Deck’ 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z It’s among the oldest surviving works of Western civilization, from before literature was literature. If You Could Add One Book to the High School Curriculum, What Would It Be? 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z America through the Shapiro lens is civilization's greatest triumph, a beacon of liberty and opportunity that is under assault from an evil, self-victimizing cabal of leftist baby killers. The battle in your ear buds: The bros of political podcasting and their quest to reinvent punditry 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z This stuff has unquestionably been going on since the dawn of civilization, and particularly since women entered the workforce in a big way, and it should have been put to an end long ago. Ken Friedman, Power Restaurateur, Is Accused of Sexual Harassment 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z Here are the fallen trees, he says; evidence of a civilization that has little regard for the environment. | Connecticut: A Review of ‘Robert Adams: The Place We Live,’ in New Haven 2012-09-01T04:29:48Z A friend and I were cut off from civilization, unarmed save for cameras and canteens, standing on an idyllic beach where turquoise waves crash into fine white sand. Journeys: 100 Miles From Los?Angeles, True Solitude on Santa Rosa Island 2012-02-03T19:45:04Z And it’s still about founding cities, developing technologies and competing with rival civilizations for supremacy in war, wealth or scientific or cultural expertise as time marches from 4000 B.C. to the future. Reviews: Tomodachi Life; Divinity: Original Sin; Shovel Knight; and Civilization: Revolution 2 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z There are only so many times we can read that “50,000 generations” of hunting and gathering is more critical to our psychology than 500 generations of civilization. Review: ‘The Moth Snowstorm,’ and Other Natural Bliss-Outs 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Dozens of routes in New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine are the same way, and they are in themselves part of the decompression that’s required as you escape civilization. Q&A: How Ken Burns Explores New England 2013-05-15T16:19:29Z Naïve curiosity and scientific optimism lead us to discover that, as Oates puts it, “an entire alien civilization lurks on the underside of the known world.” The Old, American Horror Behind “Stranger Things” 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z The same goes for the scrutiny of values; brutal as Reza’s view is, “God of Carnage” is a pseudo-intellectual tango among people who prize themselves as dancing gorgeously at the evolved vanguard of civilization. Review | ‘God of Carnage’ hasn’t lost its satirical bite, but at Keegan, it needs more laughs 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z At the same time, though, we might be reading a novel, a Victorian triple-decker thick with information about the organizing principles and deep contradictions of a complex civilization. ‘Mr. Turner,’ About the Life of the Artist J. M. W. Turner 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z A professor of classics at Cambridge University, she digs up supporting evidence, and her understanding of the give-and-take goes directly to her conclusion: The civilization of Caesar and Constantine “invented ‘the joke.’ Book World: Mary Beard’s “Laughter in Ancient Rome” reveals history of humor In particular, pro-slavery lobbyists and slavery apologists argued that the presence of slavery in ancient Greece and Rome was what allowed the two empires to become pinnacles of civilization. In "Rumors," Lizzo and Cardi B pull from the ancient Greeks, putting a new twist on an old tradition 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z On the one hand, Ms. Savoy and Mr. Sarr are talking about African art as the heritage of world civilization — these are masterpieces that speak to everyone. Artwork Taken From Africa, Returning to a Home Transformed 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z “Every civilization was built off the back of a disposable work force,” he says, starting to clue us in as to what we’re watching. ‘Blade Runner 2049’ Trailer: The Gorgeous New Spot Has More Questions Than Answers 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z He’s more like a one-man battlefield, whose dreams of peace — the “repose” and “safety” promised in those titles — express the longings of a tectonically divided civilization. Wallace Stegner and the Conflicted Soul of the West 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z Standing atop the remains of this disappeared civilization one can look toward the site of our own civilization’s relic, the obelisk, and wonder how, or if, future generations will see it. The Day the Sun Rose Twice: A Tour of Atomic New Mexico 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z When American civilization collapses, will it leave behind such enchanting and enduring ruins? A chartered sailboat breezes by a cruise liner as the best way to hop the Greek islands 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z The Etruscans were an early pre-Roman civilization that lasted until 27 B.C. National Pasta Day: Fun facts about the noodle 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z “But if woman is so domesticated and all she wanted is security, why did every civilization need to lock her up if she wasn’t going anywhere, anyway?” The Couples Therapy Expert Esther Perel Takes On Sex and Sexuality 2014-01-24T22:13:57Z The problem is Rand makes the sociopathic engineer the hero of her novel, and the readers root for the collapse of civilization and the inevitable death of billions. Dystopias are fantastic in fiction. But do you really want to live in one? 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z When a flu epidemic kills half the tribe, the brothers vow to protect the natives from the forces of civilization that they represent. Movie Review: ‘Xingu’ Depicts How a National Park in Brazil Came to Be 2014-03-14T02:55:35Z Betrayal – A posthuman civilization heads in some direction that cancels many of the values or things we cherish. How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z “First Cow” is fundamentally a western: It takes up questions of civilization, solidarity and barbarism on the American frontier. ‘First Cow’ Review: The Milk of Human Kindness 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z His glory already knows no other bounds than those of civilization itself, and yet he is barely 32.” The Puzzle of Rossini?s Brief Career 2011-07-03T02:00:06Z Curated as a thought-provoking dialogue between civilizations and eras, the museum wonderfully complements the place that’s already known for a rich cultural program and works by artists in residence. In the French city of Poitiers, Eleanor of Aquitaine’s influence is everywhere 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z But there’s nothing in Fraser’s sculpture or anything else in the exhibition that overtly criticizes what white, Euro-American civilization did and was doing to the native people, animals and plants of North America. Art Review: ‘The American West in Bronze’ at the Met 2013-12-19T22:56:12Z Indeed, it was the “threat to human civilization” quote that surfaced and then circulated listlessly around the blogosphere at the time of the book’s publication. Julian Assange’s latest wake-up call 2013-04-30T17:42:00Z Here, in the cradle of civilization, the building is one of the oldest Christian monasteries in the world. A Journey Into Iraqi Kurdistan 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z That voyage and the ship in "Things Such As" both recall Manoel de Oliveira's "Talking Picture," which meditates on the clashing and layering of civilizations in the Mediterranean basin. 'Film Socialisme': a Godardian voyage that ebbs and flows 2011-08-04T20:00:15Z He falls headlong into a supernatural adventure that pits him against biblical demons in a story involving secret codes, lost civilizations, hidden fortresses and fallen angels. Guggenheim to write "Da Vinci" action feature 2010-04-28T06:38:00Z Volunteer archaeologists explore ancient civilizations in Southern Calif. In Texas’s Hueco Tanks State Park, the native art really rocks "I always felt like I had this front-row seat to the downfall of Western civilization," he says. Shalom Auslander creates a curmudgeon much like himself in 'Happyish' 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z “The root idea was about how religion has been a force of civilization — almost like a technology that has defined some of the ways we perceive things,” Fennell said. At Seattle’s Museum of Museums, a pseudo-religion generated by artificial intelligence and machine learning 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z The animals often seem to own the chambers they occupy even as their vitality contrasts with the eroded splendor of past civilizations. The palaces of Rajasthan serve as backdrop to artist Karen Knorr’s remarkable “India Song” project 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z A decade and a half after the fall of civilization, everyone still looks like models from a dystopian Tommy Hilfiger catalog. Test Pilot: Revolution 2012-07-02T11:57:59Z Soon we’d be departing the campsite, heading back to the city, to “civilization.” Internet Porn Nearly Ruined His Life. Now He Wants to Help. 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z “When we talk about civilization we mean human societies,” Harvard Prof. Maya Jasanoff tells us. Review: Anodyne ‘Civilizations’ 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z In this light, the poem becomes a tale of human endurance, of hope against hope, as well as a reminder of the fragility of civilization and the paramount need for compassion, forgiveness and reconciliation. Virgil’s ‘The Aeneid’ still looks strikingly contemporary 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z “Perhaps I shall be perpetually on the edge of this civilization of theirs,” Jane wrote to Paul as early as 1948. The Madness of Queen Jane 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z When the palace speaks, it paraphrases Walter Benjamin: “Any document of civilization is also a document of barbarism.” Throwing Weight Into Sound: Kaveh Akbar on Poetry and Power 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z Writing as an art, a rite, a career, a signal of civilization changed: Knowledge no longer flows from mind to mind in lengthy swervy spans but rather in self-referential, photo-illustrated snips. When I’d lost all faith in my ability to write, inspiration came from an unexpected place 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Through humanity-on-humanity civil wars, they’ve now managed to destroy two small civilizations, and they’re now on the road to nowhere, fighting for one more day with no happy ending in sight. The Walking Dead Watch: Who’s Hungry? 2014-02-11T23:58:03Z "Deadwood" was about creating civilization from chaos, and how chaos persists within civilization. So long, "Lights Out" -- you coulda been a contender 2011-04-05T14:01:00Z When we last saw this group, they were making their way to the coast as civilization collapsed around them. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2 Premiere Recap: Smoke on the Water 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z The museum, the grandest and most modern in the region, aims to celebrate black civilizations’ contributions across the world. Senegal’s Museum of Black Civilizations Welcomes Some Treasures Home 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z Or something close enough, braided into our tangle of civilization, to remind us of all that exists alongside us in this world? At Berryessa National Monument, Wildflowers and Rebirth 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z “Thank you for coming to our small oasis of civilization in a rising sea of barbarism.” Where Jane Austen Danced, Dined or Dallied 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z And the collection inside is, simply, the finest record of Maya, Aztec, Oaxacan and more Mesoamerican civilizations. Seeing Mexico City, Guided by Architects 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z “The Refugee,” which is in my collection “Gallatin Canyon,” is a sea story about a single-hander—a solo sailor—and single-handers are usually in flight from something, most often “modern civilization,” whatever that is. This Week in Fiction: Thomas McGuane on Running Away to Sea 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z As Figes makes clear, the empire’s autocratic rule suppressed the kind of civil society that would be crucial for the development of modern European civilization. The Myths That Made, and Still Make, Russia 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z According to Vanity Fair, the same people who were the face of the previous 500 generations of human civilization: white men. Vanity Fair’s list of “news disrupters” is mostly male–and 100 percent white 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z Mountains on the horizon surround it and the only signs of civilization are the highway and a train track paralleling the highway. Vandals target quirky artsy West Texas Prada Marfa 2011-03-25T13:01:04Z Scores of guilt-ridden parents, themselves emotionally stunned but ultimately resigned to the prospect of their families and civilization itself disintegrating, also gather their things and escape in a state of "disbelief walled off by illness." 'The Flame Alphabet': flee parenthood, or die 2012-01-19T20:40:04Z “I think he feels strongly about the role of art inside contemporary civilizations.” Guggenheim Gets New Chairman, and Second Ever Black Female Trustee 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z The three other models in the collection are based on treasures in the Louvre, which date from other civilizations and epochs. Intricate Timepieces, Inspired by the Louvre 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z “People who believe in the existence of intelligent alien civilizations are not a marginal minority,” he said. Are Earthlings alone? Half of humans believe in alien life 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z According to economist Harold Innis, “stone, clay tablets and parchment are ‘heavy’ media which enable a civilization to anchor itself in the past and eternalize itself.” Paper, books and the art of collecting 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z Not on pastoral bliss but on ruins, the crumbling remains of a civilization dead from internal decay. Thomas Cole, American Moralist 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z George, who works lackadaisically at a nonprofit foundation of his mother’s choosing, expends most of his energy arranging for a performance of “The Burning Papers,” a crazed-sounding opera he’s written about the decline of civilization. The Rich in Fiction 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z Another commenter grumbled the news "truly marked the end of civilization" while another joked that all of the pizza chain's Italian shops would surely be closed by 2021. Twitter users question Domino's reported 880-location expansion in Italy: 'This is the home of real pizza!' 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z The weather remained perfect and we talked a great deal more, even as the bus carried us back to civilization — to the tidy streets of Reykjavik. A Chance to Bond on a Perilous Hiking Trail in Iceland 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Voss delivers his dispatches from a ghostly trading floor in an empty Frankfurt high-rise as if he were an archaeologist recounting the fall of a civilization. ‘Master of the Universe,’ a Documentary About Stock Trading 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z In Jemisin’s fantasy novel, civilization faces destruction and the earth itself is a monstrous enemy. 100 Notable Books of 2015 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z Just south of it is Marconi Beach, walled by cliffs that conceal all evidence of civilization. Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Shark? 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z There she became engrossed by watercolors from an early-20th-century archaeological mission in Crete, led by Arthur Evans, who excavated the ruins of the ancient Minoan civilization. Remaking Ancient Greece, With Paints or Pixels 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Women are always at the mercy of men, in any situation, in every civilization; it’s only the strength of numbers, culture and empathy that combat them. Being female is a wound that never heals: How Ani Bezzerides emerged as the real hero of “True Detective” 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z You don't remember civilizations by their banks or their notaries, but by their artworks. It's no act: Scandiuzzi rejuvenates a prime Seattle theater 2012-04-10T22:15:23Z He marvels at the Inca roads that were made for a civilization without wheeled vehicles. Books of The Times: A Collector of Road Trips, Just Passing Through 2010-02-17T23:31:00Z Maybe the lamentations about the closing of restaurants, bars, nightclubs, theaters and museums represent the displacement of deeper fears about the wholesale collapse of civilization. What Happens When We Lose the Art That Brings Us Together? 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z Thousands of miles from “civilization,” she’s still receiving lucrative grants and royalties and hundreds of letters from fans, all of which aggravate her bitterly competitive husband. ‘Euphoria,’ a novel based on Margaret Mead, by Lily King Looking at these brass plaques that were in the palaces, and these extraordinary brass heads, this really dignified, incredible civilization. A New Museum to Bring the Benin Bronzes Home 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z Haley is facing the dissolution of her parents’ marriage along with the dissolution of civilization, and at its best “How to Survive Everything” slyly demonstrates how these horrors parallel each other. A Survival Guide for the End of the World 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z The Greeks, Carthaginians, Romans, Saracens and Normans are just a few of the civilizations that invaded, each leaving their mark. A road trip around Sicily is a journey across centuries 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z It tells the tales of a race of superhumans who, if the trailer is to be believed, need to flee to Hawaii after a military revolt upends the balance of their civilization. “Inhumans” trailer: will the show be a success or another “Iron Fist”? 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z On the surface, advances in Western civilization with its guns, architecture and written words, seem impressive, but the native cosmology is intricate and perfectly in sync with the natural surroundings. ‘The Orenda’: blood and vengeance on Canada’s frontier 2014-05-07T20:15:44Z “The sari is one of the oldest surviving garments in human history, with its origins going back to the Indus Valley civilization.” Saris, Lehengas and Why Carrie Bradshaw Should Know the Difference 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z On the eve of the release of “The Last Jedi”, researchers published findings that 47 percent of more than 26,000 respondents believe “in the existence of intelligent alien civilizations in the universe”. Are Earthlings alone? Half of humans believe in alien life 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z What becomes of our civilization isn’t much within his control. How America’s most famous farmer can appeal to left, right and center 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z Musk also began interacting with right-wing accounts, including Benny Johnson and the Babylon Bee, and parroting conservative views by questioning trans rights and tweeting that “the woke mind virus will destroy civilization.” How Elon Musk became a new kind of celebrity 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z Here we see civilization emerge and destroy itself. Visions of New Worlds, Both Hopeful and Nightmarish 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z It was a special civilization, and now I mourn for it. The Russian Tom Clancy Is on the Front Lines for Real 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A deadly phenomenon has spread across the globe and forced all of civilization into an extended quarantine. ‘The Pink Cloud’ Review: Love in Lockdown 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z The jealous Hera, the aloof Artemis, the impassioned Ares and Zeus — the Greek gods, and the civilization that created them, grappled with strong feelings as much as contemporary humans do. Events for Children in NYC This Week 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z Jemisin’s hubristic high-tech civilization, which brought about its own doom and birthed the brutal and seemingly inescapable pattern of life in the Stillness, is not quite ours. The 21st-Century Fantasy Trilogy That Changed the Game 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z Another answer is that insects have shaped human civilization in unexpected ways. Catch a Buzz With Two New Books About Bugs 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z But those dead French cartoonists were braver by far than most of us in going up against the deadly foes of our civilization, armed only with a great talent for bilious ridicule. The Life-Giving Defiance of the Charlie Hebdo Cartoonists 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Deserted by her father and taunted in school as a “swamp rat,” she retreats from civilization, turning elsewhere for sustenance and survival. From a Marsh to a Mountain, Crime Fiction Heads Outdoors 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z As Lilla notes in his introduction, Mann the novelist remained an artist to the end, even as Mann the public figure embraced the role of spokesman for civilization. Thomas Mann on the Artist vs. the State 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z On Tuesday Richard Plepler, the chief executive of HBO, said he regretted that a show he described as a complex exploration into “the thin veneer of civilization” was announced with a brief news notice. HBO Boss Regrets Announcement of ‘Confederate,’ but Not its Concept 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z And now we have Ferguson's plea for history education that takes in the whole of "civilization" as he conceives it. Civilization: The West and the?Rest by Niall Ferguson ? review 2011-03-25T12:37:09Z In “The Sanctuary,” Elif Batuman explores the oldest temple in Turkey and finds out what it has to tell us about the origins of civilization; in “Deep Frieze,” Daniel Mendelsohn interprets the Parthenon. Sunday Reading: The Ancient World 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z And if the whole thing goes completely off the rails into global terrorism, biological warfare, moral depravity and the end of civilization, is that an informative thought experiment, or too close to the nerve? Review | The fiction writers saw it coming: The plot of ‘The End of October’ feels all too real 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z The new production begins as the tadpoles, who have been endowed with telekinetic powers, are destroying civilization, but soon morphs into a humorous tale of redemption. ‘Cat Kid Comic Club’ Review: Tiny Frogs, Big Imaginations 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z A decaying oligarchy perched uneasily atop the remains of a much more advanced civilization, Caeli-Amur is in the midst of a rebellion led by disaffected mechanics and murderers. Fantasy worlds get an upgrade with alternate technology 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z And once Christianity became championed by Rome, one of the most militaristic civilizations the world has known, philosophical discussions on the nature of good and evil became martial instructions for purges and pugilism. How Christians Destroyed the Ancient World 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z Appropriately, Erich Fromm’s “On Disobedience” warns against such immoral conformity, as well as “hysterical nationalism” and the dehumanizing pressures of industrial civilization. Review | What the ‘Resistance Library’ shows us about America’s struggles today 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z If you know how to read the corn, it can tell you about the civilization those people built. A Thanksgiving History Lesson in a Handful of Corn 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z Davalos also seems, at moments, to be seriously pondering the clash of the two conflicting worldviews that have long dominated Western civilization. 'Wittenberg' is an intellectual workout with Hamlet, Faustus and Luther 2010-11-22T23:29:00Z The Etruscan civilization had been renowned in the ancient Mediterranean for its fertile lands, mineral resources and trading power before Roman conquerors smothered its culture and history. Looking for a Stolen Idol? Visit the Museum of the Manhattan D.A. 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z The project “looks at the complexities of contemporary human civilization at a time when our very viability is in question,” said Anne Pasternak, director of Creative Time, a nonprofit group that presents public art projects. Inside Art: Tate Modern Prepares for London Olympics 2012-07-05T21:22:06Z Attired in cowboy wear evoking Mr. Hopper’s in “The Last Movie,” Alex says his movie will herald the death of civilization and celluloid. ‘La Última Película’ Riffs on a Dennis Hopper Film 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Lighting divas signifies the victory of light over dark, good over evil, civilization over wilderness . . . but the grown-up version is more complex than that. How I choose to celebrate Diwali as a feminist 2023-11-11T05:00:00Z Captcha: The ability to recognize crosswalks, buses, etc., is rare and highly prized in this civilization; humans with that skill are entitled to special benefits. Style Invitational Week 1450: Putting ‘anoid’ in humanoid 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z Below us lay the vertical mile we had just climbed, and — crucially — the shuttle that would take us from the edge of the park back to civilization. In the Cascades, a Trifecta for Outdoor Enthusiasts 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z The region was once the center of Buddhist civilization that took root under the Mauryan king Ashoka 2,300 years ago. Pakistan unveils 1,700-year-old sleeping Buddha, evoking diverse heritage 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z From droughts to freakish gene editing, the tales in Boyle’s collection imagine a near future where civilization is headed toward chaos. New in Paperback: ‘To Siri With Love,’ ‘The Relive Box’ 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z In short, those who survived the bomb were, if not merely lucky, in a greater or lesser degree selfish, self-centered — guided by instinct and not by civilization. 2010-01-20T05:19:00Z But last fall, she started fretting about the end of civilization — specifically, whether publishers were growing tired of the dystopian trope. ‘Station Eleven’ Joins Fall’s Crop of Dystopian Novels 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z Comic-book heroes are the mythological heroes of our time, the equivalent of the hero stories every civilization has ever told around campfires or gazing up at the stars. ‘Avengers,’ the Most Lucrative Movie Franchise Ever, Is Wrapping Up. Why? 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z There they become stranded and begin a trek on foot to reach civilization. Review: In ‘Mountain Men,’ Two Brothers Are Forced to Work Things Out 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z In another, a couple finds a lost civilization in the back of their freezer. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘In the Dark’ and ‘Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger’ 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Instead, they do what they haven’t felt free to do in civilization: open up and cry, reveal their regrets and fears and needs. They’re Not Lost in the Woods, They’re Thriving 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z "The ruins are a symbol -- a civilization. They represent this nation." In the ruins of an Iraqi city, memories of Agatha Christie 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z “That didn’t feel very close to civilization, but here we are,” said Mr. Yu, picking burrs from his pants. Next Stop: Hiking in Hawaii?s Waimea Valley 2011-12-02T14:36:36Z After Graft’s mother and stepfather died, Walker’s sister brought her to New York, where she experienced the perks of modern civilization for the first time: running hot water, washing machines, refrigerators and cars. When Utopia Met Dystopia, They Were There 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z Kennedy conceived of the arts as an arena of excellence, and he was unembarrassed by terms like greatness, civilization and the human spirit. Perspective | At 50, Kennedy Center can no longer be a cultural island 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z How can I try and be part of the movement of good people trying to return our civilization back to some semblance of sustainability? Nick Offerman Endorses Lumberjack Boots and ’80s Funk 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z A beautiful, fragile Central European civilization was all but demolished, surviving mainly as the ghostly object of nostalgic longing. Movie Review: Wes Anderson’s ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’ Is a Complex Caper 2014-03-06T15:00:02Z Here in Raja Ampat, the flora and fauna that populate this infinitely complex marine civilization come in an abundance of brazenly colorful and bizarre shapes and sizes. Favorite Place: Sharing Paradise With the Barracuda 2012-09-07T17:12:11Z I don't think we need people who don't understand the sacredness of leaving behind the comforts of civilization and the whole point of national parks and the protections we have put in place for them. Glamping Adds a Touch of Luxe to the National Parks 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z You could read an entire history of civilization and capitalism in how Marianne drapes her legs across a lounger or strides into a humble Italian home to sample some homemade ricotta. Review: ‘A Bigger Splash,’ With a Speechless Tilda Swinton, Is Ready for Its Close-Up 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Many different scenarios can be constructed around resource depletion, climate change, disease pandemics, etc., that will lead to a breakdown in modern civilization, war, and human death and suffering on a massive scale. From global warming to fluoride: Why do people deny science? 2013-05-25T20:30:00Z In his 1958 “House With Trees,” with its clawlike tree branches and peaked roof seen in sharp black silhouette, nature and civilization seem equally demonic. Art Review: ‘Radical Terrain’ at the Rubin Museum of Art 2012-12-27T20:03:54Z “Ancient sites dating back to the very earliest moments of human civilization are being crudely dug up and sold to foreign collectors.” Scholars Call for U.N. to Ban Trade in Syrian Antiquities 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z “People who believe in the existence of intelligent alien civilizations are not a marginal minority,” he said. Are Earthlings alone? Half of humans believe in alien life 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z The chopper thunders off the tarmac, and within minutes, civilization is in our rearview mirror — no roads, only forests, rivers and mountains. On a remote Russian peninsula, a vodka-fueled adventure 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z But in this powerful work of cultural criticism, he seeks to reverse the same trend that upset my father: that of “a civilization completely subservient to market forces.” Venice is just the beginning — the West is sinking into a sea of commerce 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Girls save entire civilizations or stave off vampires. ‘My Absolute Darling’: A brutal, tremendous novel about a tough teen girl 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z He’s had a long career, and his images of modern civilization are as important to our conception of modern life as something like ‘Metropolis.’ Film: Ridley Scott?s New Spectacle Film: ?Robin Hood? 2010-05-07T23:29:00Z As each one of them is arguably attempting to contribute to building a just and humane global civilization, they should stop pretending that nonhuman animals are not its citizens. New atheists must become new vegans: Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins and the extra burden on moral leaders 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z Even better, by the time the credits are rolling, it is clear that the dinosaurs' prehistoric adventures are going to take place in the midst of human civilization from this point forward. “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom”: The best “Jurassic” sequel delivers a strong animal rig... 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Filters are the deadliest fraud in the history of human civilization. Design: Who Made That Cigarette Filter? 2012-07-08T04:27:04Z The war in Flanders has shown the debility of civilization, and divulged the “barbarian behind your starched and studded shirt front.” How to Remember a War Without Glory? 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z And only after the Germans occupied France in 1940 did he conclude that “it might be almost as important to understand American civilization as to preserve it.” Daniel Aaron, Critic and Historian Who Pioneered American Studies, Dies at 103 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Treuer’s latest work, he writes, emerged from “the simple, fierce conviction that our cultures are not dead and our civilizations have not been destroyed.” David Treuer’s Rebellious New History of Native American Life 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z A key difference I see is that Islam is bound up with a civilization and a culture in way that Christianity isn’t, or isn’t any longer. Sam Harris talks Islam, ISIS, atheism, GOP madness: “We are confronting people, in dozens of countries, who despise more or less everything that we value” 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z And when human civilization collapses because of our inattention, who takes over? Review: ‘Treetop Cat Rescue’ on Animal Planet 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z The Jewish holiday of Purim is as good a time as any to celebrate the women who save civilization from the men who wish to destroy it. 5 Comedy Shows to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Once the Americans bring “the advantages and blessings of enlightened civilization” and the San Ciriaco hurricane strikes the island, “The Taste of Sugar” becomes a kind of Latino “Grapes of Wrath.” Review | ‘The Taste of Sugar’ offers a thrilling look at Puerto Rico’s history through the tale of one couple’s struggle to survive 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z So he creates a new universe in his Fortress of Solitude—Earth Q, Over the course of issue 10, we see Earth Q develop language, culture, and civilization. “Preacher” fans, your prayers are answered: Here are 10 comics with outrageous portrayals of God 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Those pesky mosquitoes are retreating underground, far away from civilization. Christian Girl Autumn was once a joke and has now become a seasonal inspiration of coziness 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z And soon there will be an event for those fans that lets them play a role in the simulated downfall of civilization or, if they wish, contribute to it. ArtsBeat: New Walking Dead Event Calls for Brawn and Brains 2012-05-16T14:00:51Z When their boat docks in New York, a vivid, often hilarious clash of civilizations ensues, enriched by some favorite themes from the two-time winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. 'Parrot and Olivier in America': A historical, comic novel by Peter Carey 2010-04-23T22:16:00Z It wasn’t long before the comforts of civilization made the trip seem like a dream. Explorer: Skiing Igloo-to-Igloo Across the Grand Tetons 2011-03-04T19:55:00Z The civilization of the spectacle has struck again. Mario Vargas Llosa on Love, Spectacle and Becoming a Legend 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z It is inherent to the history of salt and its role in trade among diverse civilizations. Just Add Salt: How to Make Bacon and Pancetta at Home 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z An ophiocordyceps fungus, akin to the real-life one that ghoulishly takes over the bodies of ants, mutates to infest humans, turning civilization into a global mushroom farm. Review: ‘The Last of Us’ Is a Zombie Thriller About Single Parenting 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Suddenly, it became clear, the clock was ticking both on civilization as the family knew it and on Nick’s stability. 'Fear the Walking Dead' Recap: Saddest Birthday Party Ever 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z On our way back up Ball’s Bluff Road toward civilization, we encountered a felled tulip tree, its root system ripped out of the earth, and its heavy trunk blocking our path. South Mountain Reservation in Essex County, N.J. 2012-07-12T21:26:53Z We glided right past our campsite — hello, tent! — and returned to civilization. This secluded state park on the Chesapeake Bay offers an alternative to summer’s crowds 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z History aside, white wedding dresses are commonly associated with brides in the U.S. and other western civilizations. Redditors freak out over bride's mom allegedly wearing white dress 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z But from this dull social gathering Gob Squad extracts a kind of history of Western civilization. Gob Squad jesters reel in REDCAT audience with mixed results 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z But judging by his very first act as leader -- shooting Pete the accidentally killing abuser -- doesn't bode well for the path of civilization and peace. 'The Walking Dead' recap: Rick wins, but who loses? 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z The tower, “a beacon and symbol of progressive, forward-looking civilization,” the petition adds, deserves nomination to the Unesco World Heritage List. Critic’s Notebook: An Engineering Landmark Faces Demolition in Moscow 2014-03-16T17:07:29Z Somewhat surprisingly, Mann placed literature firmly in the camp of democracy and civilization. Thomas Mann on the Artist vs. the State 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z The hotel really is the only sign of civilization. Want to ski on your summer vacation? Head to the Chilean Andes. 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z This “Symposium” explores several of the finest levels of civilization — philosophical discussion about love, the beauties of a violin concerto, the human variety of classical dancing. The Best Dance of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z We’re just going to end up profoundly lonely and not be able to function as a civilization. Kazuo Ishiguro: ‘Some awful things have happened in the last year . . . but these are not uninteresting times’ 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z Asked about the contest between his “end of history” thesis and Samuel Huntington’s West-against-the-rest “clash of civilizations,” he offered a state of play. Francis Fukuyama Predicted the End of History. It’s Back (Again). 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z It’s now 1889 in the long-awaited "Deadwood" movie, and the railroad has arrived, bringing civilization to the South Dakota gold mining town. Before the profane delights of "Deadwood," silver-tongued "Tombstone" rode in 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z “Our region is a region of civilization. Our destiny is, once again, to explore, to create, to build and to civilize,” Maktum said in a statement. Middle Eastern nation to explore Mars The best of the lot, 28 Days Later, starts off about the fragility of civilization – with eerie, empty London standing in for Ozymandias’ wreck – and ends as a parable about family versus man’s baser instincts. From Albert Camus to The Walking Dead: a look at pandemics in culture 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z People who want civilization to continue and are even superficially embracing public health measures to prevent the spread of covid-19 need to be kind to each other, to the point of indulgence. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Friends fear another covid lockdown — yet barely locked down for the first 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z That the American road system is a crowning achievement of Western civilization is too little appreciated. | Pursuits: Guy Trebay on the Joys of Driving 2012-05-20T05:34:44Z Imagine, if you will, spending an hour in an MRI machine designed by an advanced civilization not only examining your brain but also massaging it into a contrivance for higher thought. The resurrection of Julius Eastman: gay, black and brilliant 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z You can become the locus of control for this disease that is the leading killer of women and men in western civilization. Galley Girl: Bill Clinton Has a Healthy Appetite for Diet Books 2012-01-02T15:51:03Z "Filmmakers decided to face the fact that we are living a sort of a crisis of all the values of our civilization," Barbera told Reuters in an interview. Down-and-out Europe gets screen time at Venice fest 2013-09-04T15:41:02Z It’s the kind of bizarre simulacrum of humanity that might have been crafted by an alien civilization. ‘The B-Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song’ 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z As such, Whittaker’s Thirteen faces the same frustrations and obstacles with which women the world over have contended since the dawn of civilization. Before the first female 007 debuts, Jodie Whittaker's "Doctor Who" gets into the spy game 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z |
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