Contemporary furniture that is neither Danish nor straight-line modern but has sculptured pattern, many design facets, warmth, dignity and an effect of utter comfort and livability.

Contemporary anthropology is an established science with academic departments at most universities and colleges.

Often, if the skill is being used in a functional object, people will consider it a craft instead of art, a suggestion which is highly disputed by many Contemporary Craft thinkers.

* WECR-FM 102. 3 FM is an Adult Contemporary radio station, mostly music, also University of North Carolina Tar Heels sports network, and Carolina Panthers football.

Contemporary Buddhist teachers and translators emphasize that while the central message of Buddhism is optimistic, the Buddhist view of our situation in life ( the conditions that we live in ) is neither pessimistic nor optimistic, but realistic.

Contemporary Buddhist teacher Chogyam Trungpa explains that meditation is designed to develop an understanding of dukkha:

Contemporary Hindu eschatology is linked in the Vaishnavite tradition to the figure of Kalki, or the tenth and last avatar of Vishnu before the age draws to a close, and Shiva simultaneously dissolves and regenerates the universe.

Contemporary scientific research suggests that the majority of the human population is bisexual, adhering to a fluid sexual scale rather than a category, as Western society typically views sexual nature.

Contemporary Hinduism is mostly monistic, or in some instances monotheistic ( see Hindu views on monotheism ).

As part of University Museums, the Christian Petersen Art Museum at Morrill Hall is the home of the Christian Petersen Art Collection, the Art on Campus Program, the University Museums ’ Visual Literacy and Learning Program, and Contemporary Changing Art Exhibitions Program.

Contemporary Jainism is a small but influential religious minority with as many as 6 million followers in India and growing immigrant communities in North America, Western Europe, the Far East, Australia and elsewhere.

Contemporary Islamic scholar Abdullah Yusuf Azzam has argued the hadith is not just weak but " is in fact a false, fabricated hadith which has no basis.

Contemporary virtue jurisprudence is inspired by philosophical work on virtue ethics.

Perhaps the most significant difference between the Contemporary City and the Radiant City is that the latter abandons the class-based stratification of the former ; housing is now assigned according to family size, not economic position.

In 1928 the music critic Andre Coeuroy, wrote in the Panorama of Contemporary Music that " perhaps the time is not far off when a composer will be able to represent through recording, music specifically composed for the gramophone " ( Coeuroy 1928, 162 ).

The difference is mostly in the era and styles covered -- Easy Listening is mostly older music done in the style of standards from the early 20th century ( typical artists include Johnny Mathis and Frank Sinatra ) combined with Big Band music and more modern performers in the same style such as Céline Dion and Josh Groban, while Adult Contemporary focuses more on newer pop music from the 1970s on.

Perhaps the best-known Adult Contemporary station currently in operation is WLTW in New York City, better known as 106. 7 Lite FM.

Contemporary pagan ritual is typically geared towards " facilitating altered states of awareness or shifting mind-sets.

Contemporary virtue jurisprudence is inspired by philosophical work on virtue ethics.

Contemporary ethical debate is often described as " secular ", with the work of Derek Parfit and Peter Singer, and even the whole field of contemporary bioethics, having been described or self-described as explicitly secular or non-religious.

Contemporary Chinese writers ascribed Jurchen success in overwhelming the Liao and Northern Song mainly to their cavalry.

The British version of cultural studies was developed in the 1950s and 1960s mainly under the influence of Richard Hoggart, E. P. Thompson, Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall and others at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham.

Contemporary Gaelic loans are mainly for geographical and cultural features, such as ceilidh, loch and clan.

Contemporary penology concerns itself mainly with criminal rehabilitation and prison management.

Contemporary polls suggested that international displeasure with the United States was at an all-time high, with a majority of people in Europe believing that the country was too powerful and acted mainly in self-interest, and a vast majority in predominantly Muslim nations believing that the United States was arrogant, belligerent, or hateful to Islam.

Japanese Contemporary Poetry consists of poetic verses of today, mainly after the 1900s.

Contemporary Kajkavian dialectology originates mainly from Croatian philologist Stjepan Ivšić's work " Jezik Hrvata kajkavaca "/ The Language of Kajkavian Croats, 1936, which is based on accentuation characteristics.

Family Radio's music programming consists mainly of early American hymns and avoids other genres generally, including Contemporary Christian Music and southern gospel.

Some commercial stations played Contemporary Christian Music ( CCM ) for a few hours a week, but in the 1980s, as commercial and some non-commercial Christian stations evolved to Contemporary formats, Family Radio remained with a mainly traditional music format composed of choir hymns, various Gospel singing groups such as the Bill Gaither Trio, Christian college choirs, instrumental orchestral hymn renditions from conductors such as Paul Mickelson and Ralph Carmichael, vocalists such as George Beverly Shea, Frank Boggs, Doug Oldham, Mahalia Jackson, John McGill, Dave Boyer, and others, and softer urban contemporary gospel songs.

Although mainly residential, Mount Vernon-Belvedere is home to a mix of institutions, including the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University, Walters Art Museum, University of Baltimore, Maryland Historical Society, Contemporary Museum, Maryland Institute College of Art, Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Baltimore School for the Arts, Lyric Opera House, Center Stage, Enoch Pratt Free Library Central Branch, Spotlighters Theatre, Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute, and Theatre Project.

Urban Contemporary, Mainstream Urban, and Urban Adult Contemporary formatted station serve African-Americans and are mainly put in cities that have high / sizeable African-American populations.

As part of this consolidation, Narada's involvement with New Age music has been reduced with Narada's focus narrowed to mainly Contemporary Jazz, while Narada's New Age music content migrates to sister label Higher Octave.

In the U. S. Teri DeSario is mainly known for her duet with KC, lead singer of the phenomenal R & B and funk group KC and the Sunshine Band of the popular Barbara Mason cover, ( Pop # 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and certified gold, Adult Contemporary # 1 for 2 weeks ) " Yes, I'm Ready " from 1980, from her second album Moonlight Madness, released in 1979.

WCVJ played a Contemporary Christian format mainly consisting of Praise and Worship music, although the DJ would occasionally vary the format.

* Guy Roos ( 2008 ) " Exceptional symmetric domains ", § 1: Cayley algebras, in Symmetries in Complex Analysis by Bruce Gilligan & Guy Roos, volume 468 of Contemporary Mathematics, American Mathematical Society.

Other museums and galleries in Chicago include the Chicago History Museum, the DuSable Museum of African American History, the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, the Polish Museum of America, the Museum of Broadcast Communications and the Museum of Science and Industry.

Contemporary American writers in this tradition include Joyce Carol Oates, in such novels as Bellefleur and A Bloodsmoor Romance and short story collections such as Night-Side ( Skarda 1986b ) and Raymond Kennedy in his novel Lulu Incognito.

Contemporary American anarchist Hakim Bey reports that " Steven Pearl Andrews ... was not a fourierist ( see Charles Fourier ), but he lived through the brief craze for phalansteries in America & adopted a lot of fourierist principles & practices ... a maker of worlds out of words.

Present-day translations have " morning star " ( New International Version, New Century Version, New American Standard Bible, Good News Translation, Holman Christian Standard Bible, Contemporary English Version, Common English Bible, Complete Jewish Bible ), " daystar " ( New Jerusalem Bible, English Standard Version, The Message ), " shining one " ( New Life Version ) or " shining star " ( New Living Translation ).

* Gerald Graff ( 1973 ) The Myth of the Postmodernist Breakthrough, TriQuarterly, 26 ( Winter, 1973 ) 383 – 417 ; rept in The Novel Today: Contemporary Writers on Modern Fiction Malcolm Bradbury, ed., ( London: Fontana, 1977 ); reprinted in Proza Nowa Amerykanska, ed., Szice Krytyczne ( Warsaw, Poland, 1984 ); reprinted in Postmodernism in American Literature: A Critical Anthology, Manfred Putz and Peter Freese, eds., ( Darmstadt: Thesen Verlag, 1984 ), 58 – 81.

* 1979 – Jaci Velasquez, American Contemporary Christian and Latin pop singer

" The First Cut is the Deepest " earned her two American Music Awards for Best Pop / Rock Artist and Adult Contemporary Artist of the Year, respectively.

Ars Americana Ars Politica: Partisan Expression in Contemporary American Literature and Culture.

For contemporary American English, work has stalled on the American National Corpus, but the 400 + million word Corpus of Contemporary American English ( 1990 – present ) is now available through a web interface.

Edwards and Foley, as editors of a special edition of the American Behavioural Scientist on " Social Capital, Civil Society and Contemporary Democracy ", raised two key issues in the study of social capital.

Contemporary American critics of Denazification denounced it as a " counterproductive witch hunt " and a failure ; in 1951 the provisional West German government granted amnesties to lesser offenders and ended the program.

* Contemporary American Architects: Raymond M. Hood ( 1931 ).

* Corpus of Contemporary American English ( COCA ) 425 million words, 1990-2011.

The " American " Contemporary, Entertainment, Information and FM networks were later joined by two others — Direction and Rock.

American Evangelicals: A Contemporary History of A Mainstream Religious Movement, scholarly history excerpt and text seach

American Drama: Colonial to Contemporary.

Contemporary commentators made ( often disparaging ) comparisons between the techniques of the Federation and those employed in American politics.

* Ars Americana Ars Politica: Partisan Expression in Contemporary American Literature and Culture.

The song " He Touched Me " was written in 1963 by Bill Gaither, an American singer and songwriter of southern gospel and Contemporary Christian music.

The next year, three Grandma Moses paintings were included in " Contemporary Unknown American Painters " at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

In 1929, the Lynds published Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American Culture.