Word: vacuuming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Until popular architecture makes an effort to understand the needs and the spirit of the age, writes Ada Louise Huxtable, "we will continue to have the pious reproductions, the dead reconstructions, the vacuum-packed imitations and the false, nostalgic standards that, at best, evoke only the second-hand suggestion of the artistic glories of some other age, or at worst, throttle creativity and subvert values...
...many years students have been filling the vacuum and leading the anti-war forces, grateful for any politician that cared to come along. Until the movement can once again be resurrected, the burden of opposition to the president must fall to those who are in a position to be most effective. What pressure students can exert must be applied directly and exclusively to those liberal senators who have been riding the wake of an anti-war crest. The message is simple: filibuster-like the lives of millions of innocent Vietnamese depend...
...handbook put out by Bristol's Abson Press will try to make Briticisms comprehensible to Americans, and Americanisms to Britons. The glossary, which has more than 200 Americanisms, advises the newly arrived American housewife that when she goes shopping for diapers, a baby carriage, a flashlight and a vacuum cleaner, she should ask for nappies, a pram, a torch and a hoover. The housewife will find that while there are no eggplants or zucchini in the food stores, aubergines and courgettes taste exactly like them. If she finds it all too baffling and wants to return home, no moving...
...into this vacuum that Louis appears. He becomes our path through the maze. Order. Its execution. In a world where over half the dialogue consists of lies, misinterpretations, meaningless rhetoric, in a world of charlatans, contentless rituals, Louis's imperative nature imparts a sense of causality. Behind his facade one senses a purpose, a historicity which propels the film through time...
...Special Concentrations will serve as a valuable indicator of the needs of students and the extent to which departments can meet these needs. Information and feedback of this sort is essential before major changes can be enacted or refused; it is impossible to design a grand plan in a vacuum. The Special Concentrations program is an experiment that will supply an objective picture of the current curriculum's flaws, undistorted by the rhetoric of the system's critics or defenders...