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...were the major proponents of Soviet ideas in the Bauhaus. From Russian stage design followed the Bauhausler Oskar Schlemmer, and from Tatlin's chess table and Rodchenko's functional chairs came Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona chair and Breuer's armchairs. Of course many of these developments ran parallel, and which derived from which is more a question of interaction than origination, such as Mies van der Rohe's model for a Monument to the Third International...
...Democrats who support the antipoverty efforts of the Office of Economic Opportunity, for example, fear that OEO could be stifled in an administrative shakeup, and may oppose the plan. The conflicting pressures could easily kill this idea. It would also require extensive revision of congressional committees, since many now parallel the executive departments. Convincing powerful committee chairmen to abolish their own jobs will be difficult...
...instead of a scientist, a technician." I was sure that Jean Mayer knew where he stood. He said, "It is an accident, but you'll notice how my life is curiously like my father's." It was no accident, I thought, that Mayer was the first to notice the parallel, but I had to agree with him about...
Though they publicly deplore the violent tactics of the Jewish Defense League, many Jewish leaders in private welcome the pride-inducing effect they have had-an almost exact parallel of the attitude of many blacks toward the Panthers, whose belligerency has enabled all blacks to walk a little taller. The new Jewish militancy, for all its conscious rejection of the past, contains its own inevitable version of soul...
...been written out of existence; they were reduced to mere attendant lords, thunderbolt carriers to swell a scene or two. Nineteenth century rationalism seemed to finish them off for good. The remark of a Victorian doctor, that he had never met the soul in a dissection, found its artistic parallel in Gustave Courbet...