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RonPrice
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Location: George Town Tasmania Australia
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 Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 11:22 pm Post subject: RECLAIMING NORMALCY: Architecture For An Antideluvian Age |
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After the horrors of WW1 and WW2 architects in Britain made a valiant attempt to contribute their part to a reclamation of social normalcy. Such was the way Simon Thurley, the British government’s principal adviser on the historic environment in England, put it in his analysis of architecture and its design revolution in Britain from the 1950s through the 1970s. It was a revolution that turned its back on tradition and history and went instead for simplicity and functionality. –Ron Price with thanks to “Buildings That Reshaped Britain: The Modern Age,” ABC1 TV, 6:10-7:99 p.m. 4 September 2008.
As they tried to get back
to the day-to-day routine
of living; as they came to
enjoy more and more of
that post-war affluence--
the mass-produced cheap
and fast ticky-tacky houses
and apartment blocks; as
they started using electric
washers and convenience
foods--some of normalcy
returned with TV to happily
sedate, let people fall asleep
in front of the news after long
days...helping them cultivate
forgetfulness with their still
careworn and wrinkled faces,
with their aversion for serious
thinking and too much analysis,
with a convulsive craving to be
busy and to be ever-distracted.(1)
The mask of faith was drawn aside
and it showed a changing visage:
regretful, doubting, looking for a
type of rebirth that never came; as
sex was referred to coyly, if at all,
and the upper lip was stitched well
down over the teeth, lips pursed
while out popped a grin and a
toothpaste smile--as a new dark
heart of an age, our age, my age
of transition approached in the
womb of our travailing age which
would require yet another revolution
in architecture if another normalcy
was to return again to shattered lives.
(1) D.T. Miller and M. Nowak, The Fifties: The Way We Really Were, Doubleday and Co.Ltd., N.Y., 1977, p.156.
Ron Price
6 September 2008
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Ron Price is a retired teacher, aged 63. He taught for 35 years in pre-primary, primary, secondary, post-secondary and seniors schools. |
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ijkl903
Joined: 28 Aug 2008
Posts: 15
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| Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 8:43 am Post subject: Right applause |
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It is a good artical and helpful for me to read it.
There is a short story as follows:
In 1991, one from Shenyang, Liaoning's father with a 9-year-old son, came to Beijing to find their music dream.
However, the two had no relationship between father and son, two no background, just the music of perseverance and love of music is not enough to cause attention. In order to be able to stay in Beijing, the father talk twists and turns, reluctantly sent his son to a primary school. Son's talent is playing the piano, his father took a high-priced contact the famous pianist on counselling courses. The first day, the only pianist of the child for a brief notation on the shake of the head from: "This child, the brain than most people stupid, slow responses, certainly not on the Central Conservatory of Music, Chenzao diverted!" As a result, stubborn personality The son of teachers on the spot and a noisy, and also how his father could not persuade teachers and students, both much break up in discord.
Seeing not Clear the Air's son, his father a while saddened heart: "For years, my father resigned, Mai Fangzai, uprooted everywhere Qiuren, you can not is to learn the piano, the future on the Central Conservatory of Music?? You now have become the Like! "The son of another of the Jin Jue:" Dad, I no longer Xue-Qin, I would like to return to Shenyang! "After another dispute, disappointed by his father into despair, decided to leave Beijing with a son. They left in the day, received a notice of the accident: the son of the primary schools run evening, the teachers appointed to his son playing a piano. Son apparently also Qitou Shang: "No bombs, no bombs, and even the piano teacher, I say stupid, slow response, I no longer feel Qin!" Several teachers are very strange: "bombs in the good, how that No bomb can not bomb a ? "does not feel Qin? your father give you to Beijing, Xue-Qin is to the right ? However, both the teachers how to do the work, is the son of the Qin refused to Zaimo.
Their dispute attracted a group of curious spectators, that is, son of the students in her class. Next, the son of a moving scene, the children you a word I helping to persuade the phrase opened: "bomb it, we all like to listen to you Play" and "in our hearts, your piano is a bomb The best! "厖 That night, his son with tears, to have never had the passion, playing the several Chinese and foreign songs. The audience of listeners Ruchiruzui, applause everywhere, a long time did not stop. Son stands to get up, again and again to encourage his people towards the bow, in those Lianmianbujue applause, his son has made a decision to change his life: "I wanted to learn piano! I must learn!" With exceptional The efforts to increase self-confidence, two years later, his son was admitted to the first results of the Central Conservatory of Music Fuxiao; 10, he became the Central Conservatory of Music, the youngest professor, and performed with a series of successful Chinese and foreign technical panic . He is known as "rare piano genius" Lang Lang.
Fame, many people asked about the secret of success Lang Lang, Lang Lang will be referred to primary school, without exception of that special event, referred to inspire their own road of applause. Later, in an interview with a reporter wrote emotionally: "The applause is the grass-roots arts affirmed. Although they are not celebrities from Taiwan, but at a critical time to right the voice of the rescue of a musical genius."
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