61. The influence of pop culture expands the acceptability of diverse sexual personae and in so doing encourages a more open attitude in high culture toward aspects of contemporary life. 62. The question is where does art belong in contemporary life -- in the ivory tower or in the streets? 63. The result will probably evolve not out of utopian esthetic visions but through the gritty experiences of contemporary Israeli life. 64. The sheer nervousness of his line resonates with the jittery rhythm of contemporary life. 65. The unexamined assumption that advances in technology are inherently good underlies much of what is unsatisfactory and frustrating about contemporary life. 66. The world has come to know something of the famines and massacres of our contemporary life. 67. There are always aspects of contemporary life to repudiate. 68. These tales are populated by lively eccentrics and losers who cast off the bland conformity of contemporary Southern life. 69. They depict contemporary urban life in Africa. 70. They regard it as the operative norm of contemporary life, rather than a disaster to be unmade with the huge state programs of earlier Labor regimes. |