Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...architecture, the end of Modernism is particularly clear. For architecture is the social art: one looks at a painting or sculpture, but people live and work in buildings. It is the most expensive art of all and therefore the slowest to change; for once clients are used to a particular look, a standard method of construction and a conventional system of status-conferring clues, it is hard to wean any but the most adventurous away from them. Architecture is also the most visible of all arts. Buildings shape the environment; painting and sculpture only adorn it. All this has meant...
Influenced (as it profoundly was) by the chaos of World War I and the Utopian dreams of postwar social reorganization, internationalism and communality, Modernist architecture was obsessed with the blank slate. Le Corbusier was thus able to dream...
...after a lengthy illness; in York Harbor, Me. Starting his career at age 14 by filming his neighbors with a homemade camera, de Rochemont worked for Fox Movietone News before designing TIME's pioneering monthly film with its blend of news, dramatic re-enactments of events and controversial social comment, punctuated by a dynamic voice announcing "Time marches on!" After leaving March of Time in 1943 (eight years before its demise), de Rochemont produced semidocumentary feature films, including The House on 92nd Street (1945) and Lost Boundaries...
...Neal), and the picture follows him through a couple of years (it seems like more than that) of mooning over his wife Jenny's untimely demise. He buries himself in idealistic lawyering and psychoanalysis, but remains immune not only to sex but even to quite innocent social overtures. Then one day in Central Park he encounters Marcie (Candice Bergen). Since she seems to have some of Jenny's smart-mouthed spirit, he manages at last to accept her invitation to go to bed. This development actually spoils the film's only promise; for a while it seemed...
...with dire pronouncements: "Storm warnings, portents, hints of catastrophe haunt our times ... Defeat in Viet Nam, economic stagnation, and the impending exhaustion of natural resources have produced a mood of pessimism in higher circles, which spreads through the rest of society as people lose faith in their leaders ... As social life becomes more and more warlike and barbaric, personal relations, which ostensibly provide relief from these conditions, take on the character of combat ... a desperate concern for personal survival, sometimes disguised as hedonism, engulfs the middle class ... the Protestant virtues no longer excite enthusiasm ... The happy hooker stands in place...