It's a quirky idea, but a good one, not least because it gets composers thinking about the contemporary possibilities of the harpsichord.
Mr. Lauren starts weaving a narrative — the floral prints, leg-of-mutton sleeves, velvets and gent trousers that blurrily evoke the late 19th century — and pretty soon you're seeing contemporary possibilities.
Instead, Fitch's great achievement was to realise contemporary possibilities to the full, adding a brisk and unflinching commercialism to the sometimes myopic nostrums of the inward-looking design establishment.
Mr. Simons sees only contemporary possibilities with the most traditional values, like a tweed jacket in a blend of navy and purple that breaks interestingly above the elbows and holds your attention with the way the fabric spills and drapes across the front.
We do appreciate crafts and old techniques but allow them as well to adapt to contemporary possibilities".
Inspired by early 20th century exhibitions like those at Alfred Stieglitz's 291 gallery, Perés is interested in exploring the contemporary possibilities of furthering dialogue between premodern sculptures and today's evolving painting traditions.
In 1998, I created the US-Ireland Alliance, a non-profit organization with the aim of building relationships based on contemporary realities and possibilities rather than a constant obsession with the past.
In his treatise On the Eternity of the World, Thomas Aquinas, in contrast to most of his contemporaries, defends the possibility of an eternal creation, thus approaching the position of Avicenna and other Neoplatonic thinkers.
Finally, there is intense contemporary interest in possibilities for transplanting differentiated cells derived from human embryonic stem (ES) cells or inducible pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, either as vehicles for delivery of therapeutic cargoes or for functional regeneration of axons and NMJs.
Thus, the unchangeable power-asymmetry among non-contemporaries will exclude the possibility of future non-contemporaries and deceased people being bearers of rights claims against presently living people (Steiner, 1983; Steiner 1994, 249 61; Fabre 2001; see also Ackerman 1980, 70 75).
