scholarly journals The Urban Theme in Recent Soviet Russian Prose: Notes Toward a Typology

Slavic Review ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Gibian
Keyword(s):  
Modern Art ◽  
New Order ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Revolution ◽  
Literary Fraud

Late in Doctor Zhivago, after its lyrical nature descriptions and idyllic back-to-the-earth retreats in rural Varykino, we run into the following startling passage:These notes were found later among his [Zhivago's] papers: “When I came back to Moscow in 1922 I found it deserted and half destroyed. So it has come out of the ordeals of the first years after the revolution: so it remains to this day. Its population has decreased, no new houses are being built, and the old ones are left in disrepair.But even in this condition it is still a big modern [sovremennyi] city, and cities are the only source of inspiration for a new, truly modern art.The seemingly incongruous and arbitrary jumble of things and ideas in the work of the Symbolists (Blok, Verhaeren, Whitman) is not a stylistic caprice. This is a new order of impressions taken directly from life. Just as they hurry their succession of images through the lines of their poems, so the street in a busy town hurries past us, with its crowds and its carriages at the end of the last century, or its streetcars and subways at the beginning of ours. Pastoral simplicity does not exist in these conditions. Its pseudoartlessness is a literary fraud, an unnatural mannerism, a bookish phenomenon, not inspired by the countryside but taken from the shelves of academic archives.

II. The ‘Comité, De Marine’ Of The Constituent Assembly

1959 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 130-148
Author(s):  
N. Hampson
Keyword(s):  
Political Attitudes ◽  
The Political ◽  
New Order ◽  
French Society ◽  
Constituent Assembly ◽  
Naval History ◽  
Naval Policy ◽  
The Revolution

There is a sense in which all naval history is general history, since the structure and preoccupations of a State influence both the services which it demands of its fleets and the type of naval organization appropriate to their performance. This relationship is most obvious in periods of social and political revolution when the navy, like other institutions, finds itself out of harmony with the principles of the new order. Such a situation arose in France in 1789 when the Constituent Assembly set about the transformation of so many aspects of French society. The study of naval politics in the period 1789–91 consequently helps towards a fuller understanding of the Revolution as a whole. The changes introduced into the French navy form a not unimportant part of the general reconstruction of France while the debates on naval policy often throw a revealing light on the political attitudes of the protagonists.

scholarly journals Diurnal seismic periodicity corroborates a mechanism involving solar and lunar gravitational pulls and gravity of the Earth

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaiqiao Yang ◽  
Qiuyun Liu
Keyword(s):  
Potential Energy ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Local Mean ◽  
Mean Time ◽  
The Revolution

The diurnal seismic frequency peaks at 0:00, 12:00, 18:00 local mean time can be explained by the trio interactions of solar and lunar gravitational pulls and the gravity of the Earth impacting where potential energy is present. The revolution of the Earth also contributes to the stress in the crust, which is perpendicular to the stress generated along the direction of the Earth’s self-rotation.

scholarly journals Le calendrier révolutionnaire de 1793 ou les quatre saisons de la République

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-53
Author(s):  
Paweł Matyaszewski
Keyword(s):  
Laws Of Nature ◽  
New Order ◽  
Natural Cycle ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Universe ◽  
New Time ◽  
The Revolution

The authors of the revolutionary calendar, in particular Gilbert Romme and Fabre d’Églantine not only want to put the past behind by implicating a new time and new order but also try to prove the relation between history and nature using the example of the events of the Revolution and their compliance with the laws of the universe. They introduce an innovative nomenclature in order to specify the names of particular days and months but they do not change the natural four-season model of division. The goal of the presented idea is to enrich the natural cycle with a new content expressing the spirit and the objectives of the Republic while following the laws of nature.

Archaic aetia

2020 ◽  
pp. 40-89
Author(s):  
Anke Walter
Keyword(s):  
Complex Model ◽  
Strong Sense ◽  
New Order ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Stability

The aetiological story of Ate, told by Agamemnon in Book 19 of the Iliad, establishes a connection between the crucial moment when the main conflict of the epic is resolved and an important moment of transition on Olympus. While tying the time of men and the time of gods together in a shared ‘ever since then’, the aetion also marks a growing divide between the two, providing a vivid stratigraphy of Iliadic time. In Hesiod’s Theogony, three aetia that explicitly invoke the poet’s present revolve around the central event of the work, the birth of Zeus: the origin of Hecate’s powers, Zeus’ marking the start of his reign by planting the stone that his father Cronus had swallowed instead of himself in the earth of Delphi, and Prometheus’ theft of fire. These aetia create a particularly meaningful present moment: one that testifies to the different types of divine time and its interaction with human time—including the complex model of time embodied by Hecate and the linearity of time introduced by Zeus—and implicates the audience in the stability of this new order of the world. Finally, in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes, the aetion of how the lyre becomes a token of Hermes’ and Apollo’s friendship imbues the present with a strong sense of the connection with the divine sphere, even while the lyre itself as the instrument accompanying the performance of the hymn vividly enacts its own continuity.

scholarly journals Finding guidelines on social change in the two-tiered narrative and diakonia in the Gospel of John

2015 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gert Breed
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Gospel Of John ◽  
New Order ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
The Earth ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Invisible

It is shown in this article that the Gospel of John describes a battle between darkness and light, life and death, chaos and God’s new order. Although the certainty is given right at the beginning of the Gospel that the darkness will not overcome the light, God does not take the possibility of darkness away. Darkness in John is darkness of the mind, not seeing the light, not comprehending, not accepting and not believing the Word. The battle between light and darkness is described at two levels – the visible level that you can see with your eyes and the invisible level that only those who have been regenerated by the Spirit can see. Although it may seem that the contrary is true, God is in control of both levels. Jesus made the invisible visible with his words and deeds and, eventually, with his resurrection. The diakonoi (servants) of Jesus are called to follow him in his task to honour the father by speaking the words of the father and doing the work of the father. In doing this, they will make the invisible God visible by their diakonia (service). Real social change will take place in God’s time, and he will use the diakonia of his children to bring order in the chaos, like he did in the beginning when he created the heavens and the earth. The results of the research are used to suggest guidelines on social change in South Africa.

Why Is the Year 2000 a Leap Year?

2000 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 360-362
Author(s):  
Jesse L. M. Wilkins
Keyword(s):  
Historical Development ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Measurement Issues ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Year 2000 ◽  
The Revolution

Keeping track of time has intrigued people throughout history. The constant urge to harness time has resulted in many attempts to perfect the calendar. The study of calendars offers students many opportunities to investigate measurement issues associated with time, the revolution of the earth around the sun, and the historical development of the calendar as civilization became more dependent on keeping accurate time.

scholarly journals The revolution in local government: mayors in Portugal before and after 1974

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARIA ANTÓNIA PIRES DE ALMEIDA
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Transition Period ◽  
New Order ◽  
Local Elites ◽  
Army Officers ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Local Government Level ◽  
Democratic Elections ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Revolution

AbstractIn 1974, Portugal's Carnation Revolution, initiated by the military, received huge popular support. Army officers, mostly of the rank of captain, started the Revolution, but then the politicians took over. While it was largely a ‘top down’ revolution, at the local government level ordinary people assumed control. In this article we consider those who made up the local elites before the Revolution, during the transition period that followed, and thereafter. We compare the local elites in Portugal during Salazar's dictatorship with those under the Democratic regime, using a database of 6,000 entries containing details of 3,102 mayors and deputy mayors and 402 civil governors who held office between 1936 and 2013. Our main conclusions are that during the transition period the elite who had ruled under Salazar were almost completely replaced. A new group, from different professions and social backgrounds, took up the reins of local government. The Revolution produced a population willing to participate in the new order and take on roles within local government, but they did not always retain their seats after the first democratic elections.

Machines

On Purpose ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 42-60
Author(s):  
Michael Ruse
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Scientific Revolution ◽  
Natural Philosophy ◽  
The Sun ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
Real Change ◽  
The Universe ◽  
The Revolution

This chapter discusses the Scientific Revolution that is dated from the publication of Nicolaus Copernicus's On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres in 1543, the work that put the sun rather than the earth at the center of the universe to Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy in 1687, the work that gave the causal underpinnings of the whole system as developed over the previous one hundred and fifty years. Historian Rupert Hall put his finger precisely on the real change that occurred in the revolution. It was not so much the physical theories, although these were massive and important. It was rather a change of metaphors or models—from that of an organism to that of a machine. By the sixteenth century, machines were becoming ever more common and ever more sophisticated. It was natural therefore for people to start thinking of the world—the universe—as a machine, especially since some of the most elaborate of the new machines were astronomical clocks that had the planets and the sun and moon moving through the heavens, not by human force but by predestined contraptions. In a word, by clockwork!

Bandung School

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Katherine Rath
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
New Order ◽  
Art Practice ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
Art School

The Bandung School refers to one of the streams of modern art in post-revolutionary Indonesia. It is associated primarily with the art school in what is known now as the Institute of Technology Bandung (ITB), and encompasses the works of the first generations of its students, many of whom became its first Indonesian instructors. Forerunners of the school include Mochtar Apin (1923–1994), But Mochtar (1930–1986), Ahmad Sadali (1924–1987), Sudjoko Danoesoebroto (1928–2006), Syafe’i Soemardja, Srihadi Sudarsono (1931--), Popo Iskandar (1927–2000), and A.D. Pirous (1933--), all of whom attended the school during the 1950s. As lecturers, professors and exhibiting artists, they came to define a modernist and universalist approach to art practice and style. This ultimately clashed with nationalist critics during the 1950s, who contended that their work lacked an Indonesian soul and did not reflect Indonesian experience. During the early 1960s, the Bandung School was increasingly under pressure and marginalized by its ideological opponents, most notably from the Communist Party. However, with the sweeping political changes of 1965–1967, the Bandung School artists and their aesthetic philosophy came to prominence in the emerging New Order.

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