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What had that
flower to do with being white,
The wayside blue and innocent heal-all?
What brought the kindred spider to that height,
Then steered the white moth thither in the night?
What but design of darkness to appall? –
If design govern in a thing so small.
Robert Frost
Text 7. DESIGN FROM 1950 TO PRESENT
Pre-reading Tasks
1. What kind of changes took place in modern design after World War II?
What time was it in the history of the humankind?
2. Practice the pronunciation of the words from the text. When in doubt use
a dictionary.
World War II, Eastern, Western, America, Italy, Scandinavia, Japan, the
Herman Miller
Furniture Company, Knoll International, Asian, Op Art, Studio
Movement, High Tech,
Robert Venturi, Las Vegas, New York.
3. Find the following words in a dictionary and memorize their meaning.
abandon
aridity
consumerism
conventional
current
denounce
embrace
enormous
evoke
fiberglass
jet
lucrative
pared-down
refinement
reinterpret
revive
spur
surge
tour-de-force
vernacular
virtuosity
unbridle
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