Word: weltanschauung
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...Florence Knoll, it combines the work of Cranbrook creators into a smart, elegant interior, as representative of our time as the Victorian parlor was of its own. Like so much else from Cranbrook, the interiors evince a belief in the joy of design without the restraints of dogma, Weltanschauung, polemics, fad or fashion. At the same time, they live up to Founder Saarinen's credo that "the first thing and the most important one is to develop an adequate design to express our contemporary life." -By Wolf Von Eckardt
Wright started not with a style but with an idea, a Weltanschauung, a principle, which he called "organic architecture." What he meant by it was that humans are part of nature, subject to the laws, rhythms and mysteries of nature and happiest if they live in harmony with it, and their dwellings should reflect this unity inside and out. Wright's canon of organic design (which, being a loquacious and somewhat argumentative man, he often confused and even contradicted) is no Thoreauvian Utopia. He shared the American faith of his time in the blessings of technology. "This thing...
...vice president in charge of marketing and a man who "always drives as if his children were in the other car." Bates must approve every "tag-line"--as they are known in the business--before it is realised to the masses. "The point," says the man behind the Weltanschauung is to be a little bit comical, and to use just plain old good common sense...
...attempting to recover from an axe blow in the head, and that's just the beginning of the ooze. The imagery reaches beyond usual notions of drug-altered experience, to a more fundamental mistrust of people, institutions, and even the artifacts of day-to-day living. It's a Weltanschauung located in a barren urban setting, studded with carnivorous hair-dryers and dish-rag ghouls...
...country still prone to convulsions of superhuman idealism, Grass remains a man thoroughly distrustful of the soaring and the abstract. "I have no ideology, no Weltanschauung," he recently wrote to a friend. "The last one I had fell apart when I was 17 years...