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...high school English classroom. The quote is about identity, and the very fact that someone took the time to voice those thoughts reflects the American preoccupation with personal identity. Furthermore, the quote suggests that the way one presents oneself to others is integral to one's identity--a phenomenon peculiar to this era and this country, according to Neal Gabler...
...that time of the year again--the time when city boulevards and student dorm rooms gain the peculiar glow of holiday lighting; the time when everything from our televisions to our radios becomes infected with the holiday spirit; the time when uncounted throngs of shoppers brave long lines in order to buy the perfect gift, or at least one that is merely good enough...
...integration of jazz and popular music into orchestral music. But the piece sounds more like film music than a symphony. Koehne calls his piece a contemporary homage to the music of Les Baxter, Henry Mancini and John Barry, but Elevator Music also sounds distinctively Gershwin. Moreover, there is a peculiar consistency in Elevator Music that is hard to find in many modern pieces. Rather than the "degradation" of common time into complex and quirky meters, Koehne sticks mostly to the tried and true 4/4 time signature...
...mannequins, the frightened dada, the busy montage, the cold Bauhaus design: All this could be funneled into some superficial critique of the continuities between Weimar culture and fascism. But such an approach would ignore peculiar versatility Weimar artists showed in reacting to and using these new modern themes...
...museums, courthouses, corporation buildings and churches scattered throughout the United States and Europe. Many of these projects reflected the same theme of the dichotomy between public and private space. The majority of these buildings were situated in cities, unlike the houses, and thereby led Meier to face new issues peculiar to construction in urban environments. Both special zoning regulations and the precarious place of modern architecture in the chronology of currently developing cities posed difficult obstacles for him. In the German Museum of Decorative Arts, a zoning restriction which divided the building into five-story and seven-story sections...