Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bemused good-morning as the Chief Executive, immersed in his morning newspapers, sailed past them in the lane reserved for buses and car pools. Gone was the public hostility of yesterday as Nixon's presidency foundered; now there was a new President, totally contrasting in manner, mien and style from his predecessor, and he was moving fast...
...Nixon Administration, and there were whispered postmortems. "I tell you," confided one high official, "those last hours with the [former] President were the most painful that I have ever had to go through." But it was also created by the relief that the peculiarly closed and almost paranoid style of the Nixon White House existed no more...
...More than one out of every four Americans of voting age believes that his or her life-style and well-being are in serious jeopardy because of inflation and other current economic conditions...
...enclaves scattered among the 523,000 Greeks, who have discriminated against them and cut them off from sharing in the island's general prosperity. The Turkish area could either be the top third of the island, the Turks reasoned, or it could be divided into several separated, Swiss-style cantons. However it was figured, or measured, they said, the Turkish Cypriots would have to have their own third...
...ivory throne of Maximian. All the same, one could not wish for a better introduction to Byzantine influence in Italy-not only the works made in Constantinople and then imported or looted, but also the ones made by the artists of the Adriatic coast. All the canons of Byzantine style are there: the liturgical stateliness of form, the encyclopedic richness of ornament and material (gold, silver, precious stones, enamel), the sublime monotony of pose and gesture by which the human figure was depicted only as the dwelling place of a thought or a doctrine, the flat mantle of peacock colors...