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\"Spain's remarkable twentieth-century architecture evolved against a turbulent background of revolution, civil war, dictatorship, and transition to democracy. Architecture played a key role in Spain's struggle out of poverty and isolation, and its search for identity in the modern world. This book examines Spanish architecture from the roots of Modernism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the present, analysing significant figures and their works in relation to their political, social, and cultural contexts, as well as their contributions to architecture as a whole. From the austere, local Modernism of the 1920s, the influence of international trends in the '30s, the renewed, 'Organicist' Modernism of the '50s and '60s, to the flourishing public architecture of the late twentieth century and beyond, Spain provides a penetrating account of the country's rich and varied built environment\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Americans Ain't Got No Culture
THE FOLLOWING letter From a Frenchman appeared recently in the European edition of the New York Herald Tribune:
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The French Miss Poor Richard
RETURNING TO Paris, where I once studied in Harry's ,Bar, my intentions were to greet old friends and drink light wines. But the friends are critical and the wines are turned to wormwood.
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Adlai Seemed Wilted Midway in Tour
JERUSALEM -- Drifting around the halcyon shores of the Mediterranean where men sit in coffee houses and women are dancing girls -- an admirable society we might well imitate -- I ran into a man named Adlai Stevenson, not long ago.
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Eating Cake to Cure Bellyache
HIGH TAXES are destroying us. Even the Indians won't take the country, not with our imposts, falsies, ulcers, frozen french fries, spoiled brats and picture-window houses -- all containing lanolin.
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Skilled Visions
Most arguments for a rediscovery of the body and the senses hinge on a critique of \"visualism\" in our globalized, technified society. This approach has led to a lack of actual research on the processes of visual \"enskillment.\" Providing a comprehensive spectrum of case studies in relevant contexts, this volume raises the issue of the rehabilitation of vision and contextualizes vision in the contemporary debate on the construction of local knowledge vs. the hegemony of the socio-technical network. By maintaining an ethnographic approach, the book provides practical examples that are both accessible to undergraduate students and informative for an academic audience.
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CHILDREN'S BOOKS
[Duncan Williamson]'s fireside tales are of keen interest to the folklorist and scholar. Transcribed from taped recordings, these narratives - told for generations by clans of itinerant Highlanders - weave rich textures of sound with unusual syntax, idiom and abrupt tense changes, creating a sense of intimacy rarely found on the printed page. These 12 stories, chosen from more than 3,000 in Mr. Williamson's repertoire, range from variations on familiar themes such as ''Beauty and the Beast'' to fresh adventure, enchantment, Jack (or hero), anthropomorphic and burker -body snatcher - tales. Edited by Linda Williamson, the narrator's American wife, ''so far as to be comprehensible to a wide English audience,'' each story is appended with brief notes as to source and circumstance as well as comments on translation, idiom and syntax.
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