Word: elements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is delight in our best new buildings, but this delight is in structural clarity, in proportion, and in elegant details and materials, and these characteristics offer but a portion of the delight which we have experienced in the buildings of the past. Sunlight and shadow, form, ornament, the element of surprise are little-explored fields, barely understood by today's architects." Since then, Yamasaki has done his best to achieve "the joy of surprise - the experience of moving from a barren street through a narrow opening in a high wall to find a quiet court with a lovely...
...stated, did bring about a rebirth of music drama, but gave it a very new form. The Italian did not use tragedy as a special category of drama, "a perfection of its own," but rather made it a human condition which the opera sought to communicate. The tragic element in his works was only "a momentary constellation and not of lasting significance, its roots are in human nature and the real and not in fate or the propitious shape of art." Schrade lays great emphasis on the role of fate in tragedy; he thus set Monteverdi...
Only Sprocket Holes. Stevens made Shane, too. deliberately including every major cliche of the oater: cattlemen v. sodbusters, gunfighters out of nowhere, a funeral, a Fourth of July party. Stevens found under each cliche its root truth as a primal element of life on the range, turning what could have been a routine buttermilker into one of the greatest westerns ever told...
...office alone, but as head of the bishops, who collectively are the descendants of the Apostles. Rahner reaches even farther, arguing that the entire hierarchy in its collective wisdom does not hold all the keys to the temples of truth. There is, he says, a "charismatic" element in the church, independent of the tables of organization. Just as God in the Old Testament spoke through prophets who were not priests, so he may in this century speak through prophetic laymen...
...most confident air travelers must have felt a bit queasy during recent testimony before a congressional committee that airline pilots read magazines, played cards and lallygagged with stewardesses while in flight.* Says R. L. Loesch, flight test chief for Boeing Airplane Co.: "Most crashes are caused by the human element ... the inability of the crew to react to an emergency." Whatever the cause, the chilling fact remained that in a single week 211 persons, including 65 Americans, had died in seven major air crashes around the world. Among them...