In so far as we accept these false standards (of wealth and class) we make ourselves less than free men. We deny the eqality of our common humanity. Vandalism. The worsest vice, because the most senseless, peculiar to our own time has been the destructive vandalism with which we have treated our physical heritage in our town and country. The period between the two European wars will stand out as one of the most destructive epochs in our history. The land is strewn with the wreckage of what was once beautiful. In point of fact the crime has been made possibly more by stupidity than by wickedness. Three-quarters of the damage could have been avoided without diminishing the national housing programme by a single jerry-built villa. The destructiveness must be checked. Lack of imagination. Imagination is the power to see what is not there, to experience what has not yet come to be, to walk in the past or in the future
It is through their discoveries that these varying cultures co-existed in harmony to form the structure of Creolism. It is documented in the records of history that Creoles of Senegal, whether as freemen or as slaves, traveled directly from Senegal and Mali to Louisiana. People The term Creole and its cognates in other languages -- such as crioulo, criollo, créole, kriolu, criol, kreyol, kriulo, kriol, krio, kreol, etc. -- have been applied to people in different countries and epochs, with rather different meanings. Those terms are almost always used in the general area of present or former colonies in other continents, and originally referred to locally born people with foreign origin. United States Louisiana In the United States, the word "Creole" refers to people of any race or mixture thereof who are descended from settlers in colonial French Louisiana before it became part of the United States in 1803 with the Louisiana Purchase
Vladimir Gilyarovsky wrote Moscow and Muscovites, about life in pre- revolutionary Moscow. The late Soviet historical fiction was dominated by World War II novels and short stories by authors such as Boris Vasilyev, Viktor Astafyev, Boris Polevoy, Vasil Byka, among many others, based on the authors' own war experience. Vasily Yan and Konstantin Badygin are best known for their novels on Medieval Rus, and Yury Tynyanov for writing on Russian Empire. Valentin Pikul wrote about many different epochs and countries in an Alexander Dumas-inspired style. In the 1970s there appeared a relatively independent Village Prose, whose most prominent representatives were Viktor Astafyev and Valentin Rasputin. Any sort of fiction that dealt with the occult, either horror, adult-oriented fantasy or magic realism, was unwelcome in Soviet Russia. Until the 1980s very few books in these genres were written, and even fewer were published, although earlier books, such as by Gogol, were not banned
Every kind of art production is reflecting the ethic-aesthetic level of its author, their field of vision, their ability to see in width and depth, the height or nadir of their creative thought. Here we stand face to face with the problem of the highest ideal. The spiritual ideal – Absolute – and striving towards it has been nourishing classical music for many centuries, starting its development in the Orient, lifting it higher for the changing demands of different epochs. Spirituality in its gnosiological aspect means the cognition of the inseparability of a creative artist and the Creator, with the resulting notions about the highest aims of life and art. The spiritualization of a human being is the highest aim of art. The ability for spiritual cognition, as demonstrated by history, does not depend on the church. The spiritual clairvoyance and spiritual clear ability to perceive were vested to the human being long before
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