Word: heroicizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...belief that art could assist social change was a central idea of the Modernist enterprise. It pervaded the revolutionary idealism of the Russian constructivists, the Bauhaus designers, the Dadaists and Surrealists, even the Abstract Expressionists. It has now ended, and instead of the old faith in a heroic future, we have an institution: the Mausoleum of the Briefly...
...painting, its fluctuations mean more. When they occur, clearly something is up. What happened to architecture in the 1970s may turn out to be the largest revision of opinion about buildings-what they mean, what they do, how they should look-since the first third of our century, the "heroic years" of Modernist architecture, when its terms were shaped by such men as Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier...
Eventually Teng was restored to good standing and became editor of the army newspaper Red Star. In 1934, he joined Mao's legendary Long March?the heroic, 6,000-mile trek by the party's forces, under constant harassment by Chiang Kai-shek's armies?to remote Yenan, in Shensi province. Food was scarce in the mountainous caves, but Teng rose ingeniously to the occasion. According to Chou's secretary, Yang Yi-chih, Teng earned the gratitude of Mao and other party leaders because of his skills, not in the military arts, but in cooking. He was justly famous...
...because the U.S. has curbed its arms sales, he turned to the Soviet Union. Rene now presumably would be protected against a countercoup by deposed President James R.M. Mancham, head of the conservative Seychelles Democratic Party. When Mancham was ousted while visiting Britain, he scoffed: "It is no big heroic deed to take over the Seychelles. Twenty-five people with sticks could seize control." Not any more...
...heroic efforts of Crimson skipper Gene Vastola could not make up for the lapses of some of his more experienced teammates. Vastola captured all three of his bouts, giving up just three touches, all in the first bout, in the process...