Or does the totality of its meanings — up to and including its flavors, fragrance and neurological kick — stem from a cultural moment, a peculiar and corporate-engineered hinge in time and place?
He provides a clear-eyed, sharp-tongued assessment of this hinge moment in time, when the world's center of gravity is shifting "from the West to the East".
Given that late works are often the seeds of the new, this section of the course will explore proto-Modernism in order to question whether what is late and what is new can co-exist within a single hinge point in time.
Mr. Clinton would seem to have all the gifts for writing a gripping memoir: gifts of language, erudition and charm, combined with a policy wonk's perception of a complex world at a hinge moment in time, teetering on the pivot between Cold War assumptions and a new era of global interdependence.
Over the years, lots of people have argued that 1968 (the year Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated, the year of the Tet offensive) was the year that '60s dreams turned dark, while others have nominated 1969 (the year Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, the year the feel-good vibes of Woodstock gave way to the horror of Altamont) as the era's hinge moment in time.
Plastic hinge distribution in time-history analysis indicates that brittle weld fracture can be avoided in the frame including connection with opening and the maximum plastic zone moves to the weakened areas.
The plot, darting back and forth in time, hinges on the fallout of Ezi's rebellion against the cultural norms of her community, especially the impact on her daughter, Adamma.
Everything may hinge on this moment in time, but it cannot be trusted, calculated, or calibrated.
Since at most only one of the infinite number of plastic hinges is active at each point in time, the alternating activation of the plastic hinges has resulted in a ratcheting mechanism which causes the deformations to increase in each load cycle, with the same increment in each cycle.
Open image in new window Fig. 6 Continuous beam: previously formed plastic hinge (bending moment diagram dashed at point in time of its formation) is relieved upon the formation of the next plastic hinge.
