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That sounds familiar -- and, sure enough, he used it in his seminal book, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, to describe one of his early buildings. Complexity and Contradiction was a galvanizing manifesto, liberating architects from Modernist, minimalist dogma. "Less is a bore," Venturi declared, meaning that it was time to begin using ornament in buildings again. And also, "Main Street is almost all right," meaning that familiar, off-the-shelf architectural forms also deserved to be revived. The past could be a rich source of inspiration for contemporary architects. Relax, Venturi told his snobbish profession, and enjoy the old-fashioned...
Readers of U.S. newspapers and magazines have noted a new word: kembei, a telescoped term roughly translated as "resentment of America." They have seen reports of querulous Japanese best sellers like The Japan That Can Say No, journalist Shintaro Ishihara's provocative manifesto of his country's superiority in all ways over the U.S. They have seen a screenwriter, Toshiro Ishido, quoted as exclaiming, "I have nothing but contempt for America!" and an unnamed Japanese professor predicting that the U.S. will become "a premier agrarian power, a giant version of Denmark...
Much of the evidence that has surfaced in support of theories of pc-totalitarianism has been drawn from a particular anecdote involving Harvard historian Stephan Thernstrom. According to Dinesh D' Souza, author of Illiberal Education, the anti-pc manifesto, three Black students charged Thernstrom with racial insensitivity in his use of slave owners' journals in teaching American history. The students, as the story goes, did not confront Thernstrom, but rather went to the administration and to The Crimson. Thernstrom, without a chance to defend himself, was branded a racist. But in this week's Nation, Jon Wiener claims to present...
Such sermons have galvanized the discontented in a country mired in political and economic chaos. Earlier this year, members of the fundamentalist Islamic Salvation Front issued a manifesto of civil disobedience and occupied sections of Algiers to protest electoral laws that they claimed were devised to deny them victory in parliamentary elections originally scheduled for June. After some 100 people died in street fighting between the army and demonstrators, balloting was postponed and President Chadli Bendjedid declared a state of siege to restore calm...
...according to Miami Herald movie reviewer Bill Cosford, "a butt- kicking feminist manifesto . . . which sweeps you along for the ride." No, says Sheila Benson, a Los Angeles Times film critic, it is a betrayal of feminism, which, as she understands it, "has to do with responsibility, equality, sensitivity, understanding -- not revenge, retribution or sadistic behavior...