Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...normal circumstances, entering the Golden Temple at Amritsar, Punjab, the holiest of Sikh shrines, is a serene and majestic experience. Over the past few weeks, however, the temple has become a formidable fortress. Religious symbols mix with modern rifle muzzles, automatic weapons, swords and battle-axes. Even women are armed, and some children as young as five have daggers hanging from their belts. The Sikhs, a sect of 12 million that broke with Hinduism at the end of the 15th century, are known equally for being charitable hosts and aggressive warriors. Today they seem solely the latter, as they...
...There's a feeling among many people that what got Harvard through the 1960's was the house system. It bridged the gulf between the faculty and students. How other schools are trying to create the same opportunity for that mix by building communities within the larger university community," Dingman says...
Oppens has performed extensively with all of the major symphony orchestras. She is known as a champion of contem- Porary composers. But she said that she also likes to mix old and new music on the same program. "We're in an era where audiences are willing to listen to contemporary works and composers are willing to write for them," she said...
...that their knotty, straight-from-the-ground appearance is kept even as they turn into parodies of the human figure. It is like the folksy sensibility that pops two eyes on an odd-shaped root and turns it into a doll on the road side stand - only the mix of Surls 'n' burls is done under better auspices than mere quaintness...
...furniture." And the Museum of Modern Art's director of architecture and design, Arthur Drexler, refuses to mount a Memphis show at MOMA. Says he: "Announcing that it's all deeply philosophical gives the media a peg to hang it on. But it's only a mix of California funk, 1920s Kurt Schwitters [the German Dadaist], and a few things that have been lying around unclaimed." Still, Ben Lloyd, an editor at Metropolitan Home magazine, speaks for many in the design world when he states that "Memphis has made furniture much more politically interesting than before...