Word: restraints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contrast to Maki's rational restraint, Isozaki's new civic center in Tsukuba, "science city," looks, positively baroque in its exuberance. It consists of a 1,200-seat symphony hall, convention facilities and a 15-story hotel tower, circling a sunken court lined with shops. The rock garden and waterfall are stylized Japanese. The architecture is playful postmodern with the now standard affectations and allusions to Palladian renaissance. But Isozaki's stylishness is not random. Only a Japanese architect and his craftsmen could use materials as diverse as titanium-glazed tile, glass terrazzo, onyx, inlaid marble...
...Pope's visit as "a ray of hope for the Polish people." The President hinted that if Poland's military rulers decided to follow the path of liberalization, the Western alliance would consider lifting economic sanctions. Said Reagan: "I urge the Polish authorities to translate the restraint they showed during the papal visit into willingness to move toward reconciliation with the Polish people...
...Harvard College as far as it educated at all, was a mind and liberal school." Adams wrote. "Leaders of men it never tried to make. Its ideals were altogether different. Unitarian clergy had given to the College a character of moderation, balance, judgement, restraint....Four years of Harvard College, if successful, resulted in an autobiographical blank, a mind on which only a watermark had been stamped...
...Harvard College as far as it educated at all, was a mind and liberal school." Adams wrote. "Leaders of men it never tried to make. Its ideals were altogether different. Unitarian clergy had given to the College a character of moderation, balance, judgement, restraint....Four years of Harvard College, if successful, resulted in an autobiographical blank, a mind on which only a watermark had been stamped...
...Harvard College as far as it educated at all, was a mind and liberal school." Adams wrote. "Leaders of men it never tried to make. Its ideals were altogether different. Unitarian clergy had given to the College a character of moderation, balance, judgement, restraint....Four years of Harvard College, if successful, resulted in an autobiographical blank, a mind on which only a watermark had been stamped...