German Expressionism is a cultural movement that is challenging to define as it is not
distinguished by a singular style or method of creation, but rather is better
described by both the mindset of the artist creating the work and the
generation he or she lived in. The
German Expressionists were artists, writers, and thinkers who were of age
in Germany prior to World War II, and lived during Wilhelm II’s
reign. German Expressionism developed as
a result of the younger generation’s reaction against the bourgeois culture
of Germany during this time period.
While German Expressionism is generally considered to be a pre-World War
II movement, it came back into fashion in some circles after the war
ended. German Expressionism was an
all-encompassing movement that “extended into more areas of human intellectual
endeavor, its adherents participating in agitation for and implementation of
change in politics, economics, social structures, publishing, music, film,
theatre, architecture, painting and literature.” The significance of German Expression is in
its ephemeral nature. Many of the
publications that resulted from the movement were serials printed on cheap
paper or items that were burned in the later half of the 1930s. The movement as a whole was transitional, and
it reflected German culture in that moment of change. The movement did not last an especially long
time, and started to fade out as its artists and writers aged. Expressionism
has been described as a “movement of young people.” This is supported in
that as the people who created Expressionist works grew older, a good number of
them “ceased to write.” http://lib.guides.umd.edu/c.php?g=326833&p=2194181
See example of German expressionism
by Rudolf Grossmann (1882–1941) Picnic (Das Picknick) at
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within
yourself, in your way of thinking.” “If it is not right, do not do it, if
it is not true, do not say it.” “The best revenge is to be unlike him who
performed the injury.” Marcus
Aurelius http://awakenthegreatnesswithin.com/34-inspirational-marcus-aurelius-quotes/ Marcus
Aurelius, in full Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus, original
name (until 161) Marcus Annius Verus (born April 26, Rome—died March 17,
180, Vindobona [Vienna],
or Sirmium, Pannonia),
Roman emperor (161–180),
best known for his Meditations on Stoic philosophy https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marcus-Aurelius-emperor-of-Rome
Napoleon didn't
just amass a vast collection of books, but kept a personal librarian to oversee
it . "Many of Napoleon’s
biographers have incidentally mentioned that he […] used to carry about a
certain number of favorite books wherever he went, whether traveling or
camping," says an 1885 Sacramento Daily Union article posted by Austin Kleon,
"but it is not generally known that he made several plans for the
construction of portable libraries which were to form part of his
baggage." The piece's main source,
a Louvre librarian who grew up as the son of one of Napoleon's librarians, recalls
from his father's stories that "for a long time Napoleon used to carry
about the books he required in several boxes holding about sixty volumes each,"
each box first made of mahogany and later of more solid leather-covered
oak. "The inside was lined with
green leather or velvet, and the books were bound in morocco,"
an even softer leather most often used for bookbinding. http://www.openculture.com/2017/10/napoleons-kindle-see-the-miniaturized-traveling-library-he-took-on-military-campaigns.html
Willy-nilly
has two, slightly differing, but related meanings: 'whether it is with or against your will' and
'in an unplanned, haphazard fashion'. We
tend to use the latter of these meanings today; the former was the accepted
meaning when the term was first coined.
There are many spellings in early citations, which relate to the 'with
or against your will' meaning of the phrase - 'wille we, nelle we', 'will he,
nill he', 'will I, nill I', etc. The
expression also appears later as 'nilly willy' or 'willing, nilling', or even,
in a later humorous version 'william nilliam'.
The early meaning of the word nill is key to this. In early English nill was the opposite of
will a contraction of 'ne will'. That
is, will meant to want to do something, nill meant to want to avoid
it. So, combining the willy - 'I am willing'
and nilly - 'I am unwilling' expresses the idea that it doesn't matter to me
one way or the other. The Latin phrase
'nolens, volens' means the same thing, although it isn't clear whether the
English version is a simple translation of that. The second, 'in an undecided, haphazard
manner', meaning of willy-nilly arrives from the first. The changeable 'this way, then that way'
imagery of willy-nilly behaviour fits with our current 'haphazard' meaning of
the term. There's also a, now archaic, phrase 'hitty missy' that had a
similar derivation. That comes from 'hit
he, miss he'. https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/willy-nilly.html
For Vincent Scully, architecture was so much more than buildings. It was about education. History. Space. Scully
died November 30, 2017 at his home of six years in Lynchburg, Virginia at the
age of 97. Teaching at Yale University
for more than six decades, beginning in 1947, and then teaching at the University
of Miami School of Architecture as a distinguished visiting professor, Scully
was renowned as the foremost architectural historian of his time. He proved a major influence on how the public,
which included professional architects and people who just loved the art of
architecture, understood the purpose of architecture. Scully, born in New Haven, Connecticut,
wasn’t a trained architect, but that didn’t faze countless architects who
learned from the master. In a 1996
Herald story on Scully, one of architecture’s elder statesmen, Philip Johnson,
called the educator “the most influential architecture teacher ever.” Scully, the Washington Post said, helped
popularize the historic preservation movement and was the spiritual father of
New Urbanism, a school of design that promotes architecture on a human scale. Among his
honors, Scully received the first award presented by the National Building
Museum for outstanding achievement in architecture, architectural scholarship,
historic preservation and urban design. The
prize was named in his honor. He also
received the National Medal of Arts in 2004 from President George W. Bush, like
Scully, a Yale graduate. Howard
Cohen Read more and see pictures at http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/obituaries/article187626838.html
President Trump has one of the largest Twitter
followings in the world, tweeting
directly to 44 million people and enabling him to reach the public "without
journalism getting in the way." How did the president come across Britain First? Scott Simon found the group on Twitter, and
within seconds received suggestions from the algorithms for other
hypernationalist groups. That's how the
platform works. You look up cute cat
videos—and Simon does—they put other cute animal videos into what you see on Twitter. The president may not have known about
Britain First. But algorithms delivered
their messages to the president based on what he reads on Twitter. https://www.npr.org/2017/12/02/567847567/trump-retweeted-a-racist-group-but-how-did-he-get-their-videos
CVS Health said on December 3, 2017 that it had agreed to buy Aetna for about $69 billion in a deal that would combine the
drugstore giant with one of the biggest health insurers in the United States
and has the potential to reshape the nation’s health care industry. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/03/business/dealbook/cvs-is-said-to-agree-to-buy-aetna-reshaping-health-care-industry.html
On December 3, 1992, the very first text message was sent. It simply read, “Merry Christmas”. It was sent over the Vodafone GSM network in
the UK, though back then handsets could only receive messages, not send them. A year later, the first commercial SMS service
was available in Finland, and Nokia became the first company to release a
handset capable of sending text messages.
SMS was conceived by Friedhelm Hillebrand and Bernard Ghillebaert of the
GSM Corporation in 1984. Finnish
engineer Matti Makkonen played a leading role in the technology's creation and
is often credited as the inventor of SMS text messages. Growth was initially pretty slow, with GSM
customers sending only 0.4 messages per month in 1995. The fact that UK users could only send SMS
messages to those on the same network was a big problem until the restriction
was lifted in 1999. The SMS revolution
took longer to arrive in the states. US
mobile operators charged more for texts and less for voice calls, while
PC-based instant messaging services were still incredibly popular. Thanks to
the rise of programs like WhatsApp, Messenger, and iMessage, fewer people have
been sending SMS messages since the technology reached a peak in 2012. Last
year, Mark Zuckerberg said that daily activity on Facebook Messenger and
WhatsApp combined was three times the number of SMS messages sent worldwide—60
billion compared to 20 billion.
Rob Thubron https://www.techspot.com/news/72141-sms-text-message-turns-25-today.html
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