The arrival of European trade items such as beads and silver soon supplanted native traditions of time-consuming lapidary work, such as the drilling and polishing of beads and amulets.
I will take my teeming noggin to both conventions, watch all the debates and cast my vote -- careful, in the tradition of Times columnists, not to endorse anyone.
In a way, his use of complementary colors places van Gogh strictly in the traditions of his time.
It evolved as a protest against both the balletic and the interpretive dance traditions of the time.
From Shakespeare to Hume, the influences of Islamic civilisation on the literary and philosophical traditions of the time are innumerable.
But I would maintain that Coward is closer to the continental traditions of the time than the American comparison allows.
His style, repudiating the academic traditions of the time in favor of popular modes of expression, resulted in his cruel punishment — his hands were literally tied.
The rationalism of these men and their followers, directed against both the religious and the political traditions of their time, did much to prepare the ground for the explosive French Revolution.
He saw through the pieties and moribund traditions of his time, comfortably forming alliances and helping to educate and promote every kind of genuine innovator (native-born and immigrants, like Varèse and Bartok) who crossed his path.
The prophecy of the Prophet was not contingent upon changing all the traditions of his time.
But "'Twas The Night Before Christmas" less reflected the standard traditions of its time when it first appeared in 1823, and more helped shape, with the assistance of Thomas Nast's illustrations, the iconic Santa Claus we know today.
