Word: flourished
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tears, an exhibition that startled those viewers who think of him as a brilliant and impassive calculating machine. The city rallied strongly to its leader. The stock exchange vaulted and in some neighborhoods Chinese merchants exploded firecrackers, overjoyed at the prospect of renewed trade with Indonesia Singapore may well flourish as a second Hong Kong, and relations with Malaysia might even...
...help the mother of parliaments celebrate her 700th birthday in Westminster Hall. Led by House Speaker Sir Harry Hylton-Foster, in full-bottomed wig, black court gown trimmed in white lace and silver-buckled shoes, speakers from 41 Commonwealth legislatures entered the cavernous, 11th century hall to a flourish of trumpets from the scarlet-clad Grenadier Guards. Then came Britain's Lord Chancellor, his robe brocaded in gold, at the head of a procession of Commonwealth legislators, lace jabots at their throats. Next came the plumed platoon of Her Majesty's Body Guard followed by the Queen...
Protestant Protest. Casinos are still illegal in Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Hamburg and Bremen, but the 13 licensed casinos in the rest of the country draw 1,600,000 visitors a year for a house profit of $75 million. They flourish mostly in venerable resorts like Bad Neuenahr, Baden-Baden, Travemünde, Bad Kissingen, and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, even though the crowds are overwhelmingly big-city businessmen, secretaries, clerks and housewives, who go home peaceably after they have lost $10 or $15 in an evening. Protests the Protestant weekly, Christ and World: "The last barrier against the burning German...
Nuclear Ruin. "I am afraid," he wrote to the President, "I accepted somewhat rapidly and greedily. I thought of such an occasion as a purely artistic flourish, even though every serious artist knows that he cannot enjoy public celebration without making subtle public commitments...
...high point of mingei came during the Edo period, a time of Japanese prosperity in isolation preceding Admiral Perry's naval foray, which in 1853 opened the door to the West. Folk art was austere, subdued, even restrained in its lack of showy flourish and its casual asymmetry. The anonymous artisan's ideal was shibui, which translates as "astringent" or, as a contemporary mingei potter defines it, "ordered poverty." Mingei is still created in Japan today; the Japan Folk Craft Society has 3,000 members and the government has named 31 craftsmen as living "Intangible Cultural Assets...