Word: quaintness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...industrial working class the driving force behind any modern revolution often leaves him grasping for threads. After all, revolutions have been far more frequently led by bourgeois intellectuals. And the notion that today's workers in Russia and China are demanding their rightful revolutionary place appears particularly quaint; what they are increasingly demanding is a consumer's place in the sun. Finally, what Deutscher regards as embryonic socialism in modern capitalism is not necessarily socialism at all, but the consequence of modern technology and the organization it requires...
...Tokyo's Ginza (at 280 apiece), he studied older graphic techniques, and from them evolved his own distinctive style, in which he scratches directly on a metal plate with an etching needle to obtain a nervous, dramatically blurred line. "Why do Westerners insist that Japanese artists remain 'quaint' and 'traditional' in order to fit their image of artistry in Japan?" he asks. "We dress just as Americans do; we drink Coca-Cola just as they do. An artist's work is composed of various sources. They include tradition, but they must also include...
...changing. For one, Chairman Douglas Peter Grossman, of Watney-Mann, Britain's No. 2 brewery (behind Allied Breweries), argues that the industry is hopelessly "straitjacketed" by outdated production and marketing methods. For himself and his company, Grossman has introduced radical changes in Watney's all-too-quaint pubs, launched into discotheques at home, capitalized on the growing popularity of English-style pubs abroad. The innovations have tapped surging profits: while most of the industry is as tepid as its brew, Watney's last month reported a 19% jump in earnings for the first half of fiscal...
...Albanian Cultural Revolution, however, differs in one major respect from its Red Chinese model. Whereas the Maoists are trying to erase their cultural past, the Albanians are stressing the importance of theirs. Castles and other buildings have been declared "national monuments." Such quaint old towns as Berat and Gjinokaster have been made "museum cities." There, as they have for decades, leathery old peasants in white fezzes and baggy black trousers shuffle through narrow whitewashed streets or huddle in local cafes, sipping muddy Turkish coffee. In the fields outside of town, women still wear brightly ornamented costumes...
ONLY five or six years ago, to call someone a radical in America seemed quaint and was largely meaningless. Most of the radical proposals of a generation before had become Government policy, and even Communism seemed to have turned relatively conservative. Today, thanks to that amorphous band known as the New Radicals, the word has at least some measure of fresh meaning...