Word: avant
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...that hasn’t stopped them from thinking about it, and the Committee has looked at everything from a Harvard Square on Allston to avant-garde architecture...
...first real mentor in his Harvard days was an avant-garde composer named David Patterson...
...Kraft originally intended to be an avant-garde composer like Patterson, but these plans ended after a couple months. He was soon introduced to the other, slightly more lucrative options that are open to a young composer...
...society is new, physicians and scholars have known about the condition for centuries. History, in fact, teems with brilliant synesthetes--including such luminaries as novelist Vladimir Nabokov, composer Franz Liszt and physicist Richard Feynman. Synesthesia enjoyed a certain spiritual currency in the late 19th century, especially among the European avant-garde. Many artists, most notably abstract painter Wassily Kandinsky, were famed for their synesthetic pretensions. "I saw all my colors," wrote Kandinsky, recalling his experience of a Wagner opera. "Wild lines verging on the insane formed drawings before my very eyes...
Instead, this year young Belgian designers like Olivier Theyskens and Veronique Branquinho ran with the avant-garde baton and were the must-sees. Designer Walter Van Bierendonck, a professor at the Flanders Fashion Institute and one of the Antwerp Six, the original Belgian designers to gain fame with their initial London showing in 1986, says: "Of course, the Japanese had a huge influence...