Sentences with phrase «cultural upheaval while»

The 1964 Tokyo Olympics are coming and Japan is in cultural upheaval while Umi just keeps her routine going.

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With clarity of expression, Maathai analyzes the most egregious «bottlenecks to development in Africa» occurring at the international, national, and individual levels — cultural upheaval and enduring poverty, among them — and deftly describes what Africans can and need to do for themselves, stressing all the while responsibility and accountability.

While shelves of books have been written about Pop art, The Pop Revolution is the first to approach it not only as an aesthetic upheaval, but also as a bellwether for the social, cultural, economic and political changes affecting America and Europe in the late twentieth century.

In 1967, Beuys helped to establish the German Student Party in an effort to promote peaceful protest.37 Posed on the precipice of the great cultural upheaval of the 1968 student revolts — which called for the reform of educational institutions while taking a critical position toward the Vietnam War, the governing parties, and Germany's failure to confront its own past — Beuys's engagement with the German Student Party demonstrates his increasingly active engagement in the political sphere.