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...parties' community of aims, Democrats place more reliance on federal solutions, while Republicans stress individual opportunity. Democrats tend to favor the managed economy, while Republicans espouse more of a market economy; Democrats are likely to believe that spending and deficits create prosperity; while Republicans still worship at the shrine of the sound dollar. None of these are absolutes; in the attempt to win the consensus, parties gladly let their values overlap and intertwine...
...immigrant Italian tilesetter named Simon Rodia, who built them by hand in his backyard (TIME, Sept. 3, 1951). Since 1963 the Towers have been designated by the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Board as a historic monument, and, in the eyes of younger West Coast artists, they have become a shrine. "No existing church stood for so much to us," says Walter Hopps, director of the Pasadena Art Museum. In fact, he was married there...
Unwanted Praise. Wieland Wagner has worked hard to whitewash the shrine that was erected in 1872 by Richard Wagner to himself. He feels that his grandfather's genius has triumphed over the unwanted critical interpretation from Adolf Hitler, who once observed: "Whoever wants to understand National Socialist Germany must know Wagner...
...palace for Japan so elevated in grace and dignity that it will be worthy of being preserved for posterity." His design called for a quadrangle of ceremonial halls (the Emperor will "commute" from his nearby living quarters), each pavilion to be propped serenely on stilts like a Shinto shrine and set shimmering amid a beautiful pine grove. There would be escalators for elderly visitors, a color scheme (snow white and green) to please the Empress, room for horohiki (ancient Imperial horsemanship), polo, garden parties, banquets, and the crowds that gather to greet the Emperor on his birthday and New Year...
...result is that rock 'n' roll has set the whole world dancing. Its shrine is the discotheque, a place of sustained noise, smoky ambiance, and the generally disheveled informality that rock 'n' roll inspires. In a discotheque, it's all records and loudspeakers?since the beat is the thing, who cares about the subtleties of a trumpet solo, even by Miles Davis...