Word: modernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much to the parties," he says. "What we need in this country is a more active citizenship." Grass's solution is something called voter initiative, or grass-roots activity by people who do not necessarily belong to parties. Brandt last week hailed voter initiative as "part of the modern Germany we want to create...
...France, have insisted that the contemplative life is a special and noble vocation. The fathers of Vatican II declared in a 1965 decree that "communities that are entirely dedicated to contemplation are a glory of the church and a wellspring of heavenly graces." While some adaptation to modern life might be in order, they affirmed, the contemplative life itself "should be preserved with the utmost care." A new document governing the lives of cloistered nuns-67,380 throughout the world-has now made it clear that the Vatican intends to do just that...
When no existing furniture quite matched the modern grandeur of his Barcelona pavilion, he designed his own tables, stools and chairs in leather, steel and glass-which have since become classics in themselves. For Manhattan's Seagram Building, in its muted bronze and pink-glass majesty the country's most handsome office building, he had a mock-up made of the bronze mullions that hold the vertical windows in place. They are H-shaped in cross section, and Mies elaborately studied the dimensions of their outer edge for the shadow line it would cast on the enclosed windows...
...deserve its tax-exempt status as a "religious and educational" organization. Hargis is appealing the ruling, but meanwhile has given his benefactors an alternative avenue of giving by separately incorporating the Church of the Christian Crusade, which has several thousand members and is headquartered in the Crusade's modern, flat-topped "cathedral" in Tulsa. So that no one will mistake his intent, he repeatedly tells his followers that "we are a church. We are a religious organization...
Part of the LP's influence has to do with distribution. Today virtually every form of sound known to and made by man, from primitive African chants to serialistic chamber music - "the old, the new, the modern, the academic, the screwball," as Conductor Erich Leinsdorf puts it - is easily available to increasingly sophisticated listeners. What the composer writes is indelibly affected by that fact. Italy's Luciano Berio notes that Debussy was influenced by Javanese music, but had to discover it by pure chance. If it had not been per formed at the Paris Universal Exhibition...