Word: crudely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...defeat. But as demonstrated in these two excellent collections the two poets have widely differing attitudes toward this defeat. It is, essentially, the fate of man in history, but to the dry, witty, elegant and overcivilized Cavafy, history is sheer irony; the Golden Age never was, except as a crude, sensational and vulgar replica of modern times and all times. To Seferis, on the other hand, history is a parable of man's oft deluded but intrinsically noble search for his own soul. Seferis recognizes human frailty...
Shadows. Actor-Turned-Director John Cassavetes' crude, sometimes trite, but powerful improvisation of interracial love among Manhattan's young havenots...
...pressured Chairman Morehead Patterson, 64, who took over the company in 1943 from his father Rufus L. Patterson, inventor of the first automated tobacco machine. After World War II, Morehead Patterson decided that the company had to grow or die. Searching for new products, he turned up a crude prototype of an automatic bowling-pm setter. To get the necessary cash to develop the intricate gadget, Patterson swapped off AMF stock to acquire eight small companies with fast-selling products. The Pinspotter, perfected and put on the market in 1951, helped to turn bowling into the most popular U.S. competitive...
From a distance they are magnificent, but on closer inspection, some observers find them disturbing. Says Michigan's Architect Minuro Yamasaki of the High Court Building: "In India, I thought, everything is elegant and refined; but here was something crude. I thought this building should have elegance and be proud, too. But it is a fist instead of a hand." Architect Paul Rudolph of the Yale School of Art and Architecture disa grees. "As time goes on," says he, "everyone will understand the importance of Chandigarh; people will go there as they now go to the Piazza San Marco...
...consideration in such an enterprise." The city is universal, ancient, and wholly modern; its major buildings are orchestrations of pillars and brises soleil, of soaring archways and intertwining ramps, of random openings and tense façades that dance like notes on a musical score. They are princely and crude at the same time-both beautiful and brutal...