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...Every second book jacket, it seems, has a thick, angular sans serif typeface derived from the Wiener Werkstatte, the seminal crafts collaborative established in the city in 1903. Nearly the whole crop of high-design coffee services and teapots marketed since 1980 seems to have been plucked from an avant-garde Viennese workshop sometime before...
...forebears look dowdy by comparison. Loos' nemesis Hoffmann, though, was the absolute master of furniture and domestic objects. No one has designed handsomer seating in the 20th century. His best-known and most widely copied chair was designed for the Kabarett Fledermaus (1907), a club by and for the avant-garde. The regularity of its limbs and parts is strict, but as with all the best Wiener Werkstatte work, severity is not carried too far. Six wood spheres, billiard ball-size, tucked under each arm and atop each leg, are a perfect ornamental gesture, precise and machined but irrational...
Since Jean-Charles de Castelbajac and Andre Courreges are more or less avant-garde, one might be thankful that the offerings departed from their current fascination with four-sleeved sweaters or garish prints. Castelbajac may in fact have disappointed those who longed for something more controversial. His chasubles are translucent to splash bright colors on the white albs underneath, evoking the stained-glass windows of his boyhood memory. ("God was light," he recalls.) The outsize cross symbols are certainly traditional enough, inspired as they were by clothing that St. Louis wore during the Seventh Crusade. More outre, Courreges offered...
...Burger Court will be remembered, if it's remembered at all, as a moderate court, neither retrenching nor avant-garde," says Duke University Law Professor William Van Alstyne. Its prudence derived from the respect it, like previous courts, accorded to the precedents set by predecessors. Thus the Warren rulings became the basis upon which the Burger Court built its reasonings. It left standing the chief emblem of the Warren era's expansion of defendants' rights, the Miranda decision, which requires police to inform suspects of their rights before interrogation. But it allowed police to dispense with Miranda warnings in emergency...
...courses that were cancelled, Pihl said, included Comp Lit 170, "Gertrude Stein;" Drama S-70, "Theater of the Avant Garde;" Government 1340, "Constitutional Interpretation;" Government 1595, "American Political Theory;" Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations S-199, "History of the Jews in Europe to the End of the 18th Century;" French S-P; and German S-170, "Golden Age of the German Film...