Word: graceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pure functionalism (following Le Corbusier's dictum "a house is a machine for living") and the ruthless exclusion of all ornament. While they pay close attention to the purposes of their buildings and are inclined to let structural forms speak for themselves, they are concerned about the grace of their designs. All this can be clearly seen in three of the book's examples...
...winter they go regularly, receive Holy Communion once a month. Entering and leaving church the Deweys find time for considerable friendly handshaking. Says a fellow vestryman: "The Governor is the only lawyer on the vestry, and he is a real help to us." Before meals Governor Dewey says a grace his father taught...
...chaotic world is shown by Joyce in the dreaming mind of Finnegans' principal character, H. C. Earwicker, an Irishman of Germanic stock haunted by his own fall from grace. Earwicker's dream, Campbell and Robinson believe, is of the kind described by Philosopher Schopenhauer when he summed up the modern world as "a vast dream, dreamed by a single being; but in such a way that all the dream characters dream too. Thus everything interlocks and harmonizes with everything else...
...serious border dispute with the Soviet Union. Last spring he transferred Japan's extraterritorial rights in China to Puppet Wang Ching-wei. His Greater East Asia responsibilities include the continent from Manchuria to Burma. When face-saving or gracious withdrawals become inescapable, Shigemitsu can do both with honorable grace...
...skaters run, dance, sing, chase girls, climb ladders, turn cartwheels, there really seems no reason why life itself should not be lived on skates. Yet it is the actual skatin -the grace of Carol Lynne, the teamwork of the Caley Sisters, the precision of the ice ballet-that gives Hats Off most of its lift; the big, exotic production numbers are pretty enough, but they induce more Persian or Hawaiian languor than they mean...