Word: modell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should someone ask me whether I would indicate the West such as it is today as a model to my country, frankly I would have to answer negatively. No, I could not recomment your society in its present state as an ideal for the transformation of ours. Through intense suffering our country has now achieved a spiritual development of such intensity that the Western system in its present state of spiritual exhaustion does not look attractive. Even those characteristics of your life which I have just mentioned are extremely saddening...
Approach #2. The Duke Mantee Autograph Model Paranoid Approach. Recommended for the Shy, the Truly paranoid, and the Easily Disgusted. Prerequisites: A nascent sense of misanthropy or the inability to deal with people whom you are convinced are either out people whom you are convinced are either out to get you or trying to prove their superiority. This famous approach, also suggested for the disdainful, lets you waltz through Freshman Week as an observer. As a non-combatant, you get to watch everyone else have a real "good time" while you stand at the finges, cringing or remaining aloof. Just...
...music from the New York Philharmonic's open-air concert near by. At lunch hour, regulars glide along the park's winding paths, lapping the joggers. Some of the joggers are in fact beginning to roll, and one skate manufacturer has come out with a "jogger" model-a blue running shoe with yellow racing stripes mounted on wheels. After all, skating uses many of the same muscles as running, burns a respectable number of calories and is easier on the knees...
...look at the stark glass and aluminum "international style" that he would use in his 1937 design for Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. But years later, after his El Panama Hotel in Panama City was built in 1949, Stone denounced his austere designs as resembling "the latest model automobile, doomed to early obsolescence." Aiming at what he called the "assurance of permanence," he turned to more solid structures of concrete, brick and stone. For two decades, Stone produced variations of the New Delhi embassy, with its boxlike shape, gold-leaf columns, lacy concrete grille, fountains and reflecting pool...