Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...shame the beasts. That is the thematic core of The Bacchae. But the dramatic spring, common to ancient tragedy, is a test of implacable wills. A man pits himself against a god, a no-win situation. Man's hubris is crushingly rebuked by the divine imponderable, necessity. The tension is not in the contest but in the axiomatic revelation uttered by the chorus of the bacchantes: "Knowledge is not wisdom...
...with the teachers continuing their "work to rule" slowdown and marching in informational pickets outside the school, tension has been mounting for more than a week...
...their goods are now overpriced in foreign markets in comparison with products priced in weaker currencies. The dollar was robust largely because it remains, despite U.S. economic problems, the world's "refuge currency." Nervous speculators who cannot acquire gold traditionally turn to dollars at times of extreme world tension...
...tension between the East Cantabrigians and the old guard around Harvard College erupted. Triggered by a proposition to move the town hall to Norfolk St., a group of oldtimers petitioned to divide the city, while some East Cantabrigians followed suit...
...PETER EISENMAN pointed out in an essay on the houses, the project represents a development of certain general themes. Walls and roofs function as planes compressing space. Hejduk alleviates the tension within the box-like shape by puncturing the surface of the walls with glass windows or cutting away the roof to open courtyards. Hejduk also works at resolving the conflict between a symmetrical form (the nine-square grid) and the asymmetrical demands of a program for a functioning house. At first he conceals the asymmetries within the house; later, he reflects them onto the facades by arranging columns which...