Word: patinaed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...retrospect, it never worked particularly well as a nation-state. But during the late 1950s and 1960s, Lebanon was prosperous, relatively peaceful, more or less democratic, a relaxed oasis of tolerance for the Islamic world. Beneath its patina of tranquillity, however, stirred future troubles: a bewildering mixture of sectarian communities that had fought one another, on and off, for centuries. Two events brought the latent antagonisms to the surface: the decision by the Palestine Liberation Organization in the late 1960s to establish its principal base of operations in Lebanon, and Israel's disastrous invasion of the country...
...genuine convert to the cause of democracy. His new ideals and his ever growing popularity drew him into the French Revolution, and at 31 he became vice president of the new National Assembly the day before the Bastille was stormed. By trying to give the monarchy a republican patina, however, he earned the enmity of both commoners and nobility. As the Revolution turned bloody, he fled across Austrian lines toward Belgium but was imprisoned. Austria and Prussia considered him a dangerous insurrectionary influence...
...Patina and Design...
...your article on the modern design show in Philadelphia [Oct. 24]: Americans do not reject the "form" of modern design. It is the materials that they resist. People want objects that reflect warmth, texture and the patina that develops with use. These qualities are found in wood, not chrome, glass and polyvinyl. As a cabinetmaker, I believe that it is not ornament that is demanded, but natural materials and some evidence that a human hand has touched the piece...
...does not take quite that much marination to make a great snob, since the secret of snobbery is mere plausibility, the appearance of knowledge and breeding. Still, in a busy world it is difficult to find the time and resources to give the laminations and high gloss, the old patina, that used to be the mark of great snobbery...