Word: movement
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...essence of the International Style, or the Modern Movement (the two phrases are almost synonymous by now), was its dogmatism. The years 1900 to 1930 bristle with formulas and coercive epigrams: "Form follows function," "The house is a machine for living in," and so forth. Mies van der Rohe's "Less is more" was prefigured by the Viennese architect Adolf Loos' belief, published in Vienna in 1908, that ornament was crime: "We have outgrown ornament!" Loos exclaimed. "See, the time is nigh, freedom awaits us. Soon the streets of the City will glisten like white walls, like Zion, the holy...
...group of freshmen Congressmen had offered to serve as a "base of support" in Congress for such a movement in a meeting last month with members of SASC...
...Mickey Leland (D-Tex.) had said before signing the letter that Harvard students could coordinate a student movement across the country that would influence Congress towards greater awareness of South Africa...
...Another movement under way is the rehabilitation of persons considered "bourgeois." Kwangtung Radio announced that at Canton's Rubber Plant No. 7, "six former bourgeois owners" discharged during the Cultural Revolution have been rehired and assigned to administrative and production jobs. This is a clear application of Teng's pragmatism: it is a person's technical knowledge that the new China wants, not his political purity...
When Japanese Conductor Seiji Ozawa went home for a visit with his orchestra, the Boston Symphony, last March, he took time out for a special project: a long-planned TV series on Japanese orchestras. As part of the series, Tokyo's Gakushuin University Orchestra performed the third movement of Brahms' fourth symphony, and viewers got the royal treatment. In the string section of the orchestra was Prince Hiro, 18, eldest son of Crown Prince Akihito and Princess Michiko. The prince, a freshman, has chosen to follow in his father's footsteps and attend a public university...