Word: wakefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inclusion is that the school was eventually disbanded by the Nazis for the political beliefs expressed in its manifestoes. Its ideal was to promote egalitarian social conditions by providing visual continuity at every level of life. For example, a perfect start to a Bauhaus day would be to wake up in the morning to coffee in a mass-produced coffee cup designed to blend pleasantly with that day's newspaper type, whose forms in turn would intermesh smoothly with the rest of the Kitchen, the house--in short, the world, Waking to that well-designed harmony, you were expected...
...magnificent city after Paris, was far more resplendent than this week's Helsinki meeting promises to be. There are, however, many compelling, if superficial resemblances. In their own way both events can be seen as attempts to legitimize postwar balances of force in Europe-the one in the wake of the devastating Napoleonic Wars, the other a long-delayed sequel to the equally disastrous imperial quest of Adolf Hitler...
...council of 200 delegates from all across Italy had been called to chart new political directions in the wake of disastrous setbacks for the Christian Democrats in the recent regional elections (TIME, June 30). As the delegates arrived at party headquarters in EUR, a suburb of Rome, many of them had obviously already picked a primary target for the "renewal." They blamed Christian Democratic losses and sizable Communist Party gains directly on Fanfani, who is the unquestioned leader of the factionalized party's right wing...
...million advertising campaign that nagged Americans to send in suggestions for improving mass transportation. The company's own idea was plain enough. Top executives of Arco, the seventh largest U.S. oil company, were upset by public resentment of the big profits rolled up by the industry in the wake of the 1973-74 price increases. So they decided to do some image polishing by sponsoring a nationwide debate on alternatives to the family car. The response: an astonishing 30,000 ideas from all 50 states (led by car-choked California) and 20 foreign countries as well...
...Agee had decided to write about the CIA. Increasing disillusionment with the U.S. government in the wake of the Cambodian invasion and the Kent State killings evidently moved Agee to begin to assemble his own list of official crimes committed for God and country. In spite of extensive CIA harassment. Agee finally completed the book last year. An English publisher accepted it after a number of U.S. firms had rejected the manuscript on the grounds that it was too boring...