He sees bonobo chimpanzees, our closest living relatives, as illustrating its stabilizing and unifying power.
Triggers abound: his "anger and disappointment" with the art world and its values; the failure of America: Now and Here, his post 9/11 project to spread what he considers the unifying power of art nationwide; childhood's loitering traumas.
"My fear is the situation is only going to get worse". Yet this is a time when divided communities need the soothing balm of art and unifying power of music reaching across borders more than ever.
Best of all, the great high colonnades, set back at least 200 feet from the water, have no earthly use; they are there not to impress, but to represent the civilizing, unifying power of architecture, like the "useless" height of the waiting rooms of the old Penn Station.
This exercise illustrates the unifying power of physics and the profound connections between the small and the large in the cosmos we inhabit.We focus on the minimum and maximum masses of normal stars, the corresponding quantities for neutron stars, the maximum mass of a rocky planet, the maximum mass of a white dwarf, and the mass of a typical galaxy.
Bradley's considered view in Chapter III is that neither external nor internal relations possess unifying power and must therefore be rejected as unreal.
In conjunction with the current Power Plant Gallery exhibit, Soundings: Protest|Politics|Dissent, we'll have a discussion about the subversive, creative, disruptive, unifying power of sound.
Over 17 days, I experienced in vivid detail the uniquely unifying power of running--or at least running races--as well as the limits of that power.
Its world-famous red and white logo – the letters recalling strikers standing shoulder to shoulder and flying the national flag – has lost its unifying power.
We got to hear about the unifying power of music.
Mostly, though, this is just a celebration of the unifying power of music.
