Word: turne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Naomi Sims, who grew up in the heart of Pittsburgh, was making her first trip to Europe. She was determined to turn the voyage into a cram course on classical civilizations...
...raised and moved electric skillet dial is more likely to catch on a sleeve or be bumped by the arm, upsetting the skillet as the cook attempts to turn or place something in it. Why not just incorporate a twisting section into the handle similar to the gas control on the handlebars of a motorcycle...
...until his death in 1951. The younger radicals seized upon his abstract serial period of the 1920's and upon the exceedingly astringent works of the meticulous Anton Webern astringent works of the meticulous Anton Webern (1883-1945), as their sources of inspiration. The genuinely revolutionary effect of the turn-of-the-century ferment, and the principle which has animated today's avant-garde, was that expressionism and impressionism were subsumed by a new language. Schoenberg had termed his achievement the "emancipation of dissonance." Insofar as the avant-garde moves toward the conclusion that music is the audible world itself...
...long and agonizing interregnum between the act of separation and the new art which must inevitably follow. Hence the avant-garde deserves neither cultist celebration nor complacent denunciation. Someone in the future may conclude that it was purest fantasy, wantonness disguised as on act of faith. It may turn out to be only senescent romanticism. But we cannot envision that future. For the moment we might breathe and touch the things of our poor, sweaty, nervous present and consider that even a living illusion can be more valuable than a dead reality. The generic challenge to dullness...
...faculty to take the lead in reform. they have the right to expect faculty cooperation in making inevitable changes. But the report may face tough going in the faculty meeting tomorrow. Professor Archibald Cox has filled a minority report which warns that the Committee is talking "a wrong turn in the history of the Law School on a most serious occasion...