Contemporary men batik shirt in typical Solo style, sogan color and lereng motif.

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.

The popularity of " contemporary folk " recordings caused the appearance of the category " Folk " in the Grammy Awards of 1959: in 1970 the term was dropped in favor of " Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording ( including Traditional Blues )", while 1987 brought a distinction between " Best Traditional Folk Recording " and " Best Contemporary Folk Recording ".

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.

The former made Top 20 on Adult Contemporary, while the latter did not gain enough airplay to crack the Country Top 40.

Contemporary reviews all praised the play's humour, though some were cautious about its explicit lack of social messages, while others foresaw the modern consensus that it was the culmination of Wilde's artistic career so far.

Contemporary sidewalks are most often made of concrete in the United States and Canada, while tarmac, asphalt, brick, stone, slab and ( increasingly ) rubber are more common in Europe.

Contemporary Greek literature is represented by many writers, poets and novelists: Dionysios Solomos, Andreas Kalvos, Angelos Sikelianos, Emmanuel Rhoides, Kostis Palamas, Penelope Delta, Yannis Ritsos, Alexandros Papadiamantis, Nikos Kazantzakis, Andreas Embeirikos, Kostas Karyotakis, Gregorios Xenopoulos, Constantine P. Cavafy, Demetrius Vikelas, while George Seferis and Odysseas Elytis have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Contemporary designs of this style also have a pressure-activated interlock mechanism that prevents the lid from being removed while the cooker is pressurized.

Meanwhile, " I Could Fall in Love ", while ineligible for the Hot 100 at the time, reached number 8 on the Hot 100 Airplay chart and the top 10 on the Adult Contemporary Chart.

Contemporary scholarship, while not claiming that this view was entirely false, tends to hold that it was highly exaggerated ; Palestrina was one of many skilled composers working at the time, and the influence of the Council of Trent on musical composition was more limited than at first presumed ( the composers of the Venetian School, for example, ignored it almost entirely, and Palestrina-style composers such as Lassus, working in Munich, were also quite free to write as they pleased ).

Contemporary rock writer Robert Bixby stated that the sound of the MC5 was like " a catastrophic force of nature the band was barely able to control ," while Don McLeese notes that fans compared the aftermath of an MC5 performance to the delirious exhaustion experienced after " a street rumble or an orgy.

Frieze launched in 1991 embraced the YBAs from the start while established publications such as Art Monthly, Art Review, Modern Painters and Contemporary Art were all re-launched with more focus on emerging British artists.

Contemporary scholars continue to debate who was Muslim and who was Jew-some " Islamic scholars " were " Jewish scholars " prior to forced conversion to Islam, some Jewish scholars willingly converted to Islam, such as Abdullah ibn Salam, while others later reverted to Judaism, and still others, born and raised as Jews, were ambiguous in their religious beliefs such as Ibn al-Rawandi-though lived according to the customs of their neighbors.

Baudrillard himself, since 1984, was fairly consistent in his view that contemporary art, and postmodern art in particular, was inferior to the modernist art of the post World War II period, while Jean-François Lyotard praised Contemporary painting and remarked on its evolution from Modern art.

The Wind won two Grammys, with the album itself receiving the award for Best Contemporary Folk Album, while " Disorder in the House ", Zevon's duet with Bruce Springsteen, was awarded Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocal.

The title track duet reached # 27 on the Hot 100 chart (# 7 R & B /# 4 Adult Contemporary ), while the second single, " Got a Date " was only a moderate hit (# 45 R & B /# 15 Club Play ).

Contemporary reviews, however, were mixed ; while appreciating Faulkner's writing style, they stressed the book's seeming lack of consistency and its loose plot.

" " Hello Stranger " topped the U. S. Adult Contemporary charts for four weeks, and was also a # 15 Pop hit in 1977, while " Love Me " was a # 14 Pop hit in late 1976 / early 1977.

Contemporary forms of the music are also characterised by quick tempi and rapid delivery, while tempi tend to be slower in traditional forms and in some Lao genres.

From 2012, the title of the category will be shortened to Best Jazz Instrumental Album, while two previously separate categories ( Best Contemporary Jazz Album and Best Latin Jazz Album ) will now also fall under this category.

In 2003, the Grammy Award for Best R & B Album was split into two categories: Best Contemporary R & B Album is for R & B longplay records ( LPs ) that have modern hip-hop stylings to them, while this honor is for R & B LPs that are more traditional and less electronic.

Contemporary children's play dollhouses are mostly in 1: 18 ( or 2 / 3 ") scale, while 1: 12 ( or 1 ") scale is common for dollhouses made for adult collectors.

WNND formerly carried a hybrid of Adult Contemporary, Urban AC, and instrumental covers as " Smooth Jazz 103. 5 " under the WJZA calls with programming derived from Broadcast Architecture's Smooth Jazz Network ; while from 2009 to 2010, WODB had its own identity as " Big Hits B1043 ," with a classic hits format.

In time, the usage of the " smooth jazz " name was taken very liberally as WJZA shifted to a hybrid of Adult Contemporary, Urban AC, and instrumental covers, while the majority of WJZA's programming was soon derived from Broadcast Architecture's " Your Smooth Jazz " service, which chiefly operated under this hybrid style.

In 1870 he succeeded Dean Alford as editor of the Contemporary Review, but left it in 1877 owing to the objection of the proprietors to the insertion of articles ( by W. K. Clifford notably ) attacking Theism and founded the Nineteenth Century ( to the title of which, in 1901, were added the words And After ).

Contemporary Arab and Muslim historians and chroniclers were much more interested in the second Umayyad siege of Constantinople in 718, which ended in a disastrous defeat.

Contemporary chroniclers made much of his close affinity with a succession of male favourites ; some condemned Edward for loving them " beyond measure " and " uniquely ", others explicitly referring to a " illicit and sinful union ".

Contemporary accounts say he was " not much seen " in the school, and this appears to be true of others in a similar position.

Contemporary indigenous culture in the park is much changed from that of pre-colonial Central Queensland ; however strong Indigenous links to the landscapes within Carnarvon National Park are maintained through traditional owner involvement in the protection and preservation of the Park's cultural sites.

Contemporary St. Louis shag, for instance, ( an eight-count dance ) does not look much like contemporary Carolina Shag, though both originated in the Swing era of the 1930s and 40s.

His first solo album, A Prayer for the Soul of Layla, received much critical acclaim including Best Contemporary World Music Album at the 1st Annual New Age Voice Music Awards.

Contemporary historian William Camden observed of the northern English and the Scots, " there is not a man amongst them of a better sort that hath not his little tower or pile ", and many tower houses seem to have been built as much as status symbols as defensive structures.

Contemporary forms of popular culture, much like the traditional forms, provide not only entertainment but also an escape for the contemporary Japanese from the problems of an industrial world.

Contemporary estimates vary, but on the eve of the Greek War of Independence as much as 45 % of the population of the island may have been Muslim .< ref > Excerpts

Contemporary left communist theory defends that Lenin was mistaken on his definition of imperialism ( although how grave his mistake was and how much of his work on imperialism is valid varies from groups to groups ) and Rosa Luxemburg to be basically correct on this question, thus accepting capitalism as a world epoch similarly to Lenin, but a world epoch from which no capitalist state can oppose or avoid being a part of.

Critics of Contemporary Feng Shui are concerned that with the passage of time much of the theory behind it has been lost in translation, not paid proper consideration, frowned upon, or even scorned.

Contemporary communism, including contemporary Christian communism, owes much to Marxist thought – particularly Marxist economics.

SABC 1 carried much of its programming over from the defunct CCV ( Contemporary Community Values ) channel, which was itself made up of the old TV2, TV3 and TV4 channels created in the 1980s.

It would be three years before REZ returned to the studio to record their next album and much changed in the Contemporary Christian music industry during that time.

By the fiscal year 2011, its budget of $ 16 million surpassed the one of the much larger Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

While many Christian bookstores at the time sold much more than books — they also sold religious movies, Contemporary Christian music, and other goods — such stores did not sell video games.

Although the Brown Corpus pioneered the field of corpus linguistics, by now typical corpora ( such as the Corpus of Contemporary American English, the British National Corpus or the International Corpus of English ) tend to be much larger, on the order of 100 million words.

Contemporary Brazilian literature is, on the whole, very much focused on city life and all its aspects: loneliness, violence, political issues and media control.

In the last year of his life, Levy commuted up the Hudson River from New York City to teach a class at the Levy Institute, “ Contemporary Developments in Finance ,” in which he focused on his belief that investing is as much a psychological as it is an economic act.

Although Crawford preferred to characterize their relationship as one of “ sisterly-motherly love ,” she also acknowledged that at one time, their relationship had bordered becoming sexual, particularly on Bauer's part when she reserved a single hotel room for the two of them at the International Festival of Contemporary Music in Liège in September 1930, which made Crawford “ uncomfortable .” Along with Crawford's perceptions of her relationship with Bauer, Martin Bernstein, a longtime friend of Bauer's and a former chair of the NYU music department, stated: “ s a female, had very little interest in men ( emphasis in original )... At least if she had any romantic liaisons with men, we don't know about it .” Babbitt further substantiated Bernstein's thoughts during an interview about Bauer when he remarked, “ And she was very much a ... let's simply say unmarried.

Contemporary graphic design in Japan owes much to Garo artists, particularly King Terry, Seiichi Hayashi, and Shigeru Tamura.

In the October 1977 Dominic Milano interview of Keith Emerson in Keyboard Magazine ( at that time called " Contemporary Keyboard Magazine "), and much later on the band's DVD Beyond the Beginning, Emerson said the solo was recorded in one take.

The Wonderlic Contemporary Cognitive Ability Test is a much more comprehensive test.

DeYoung recounted to Contemporary Keyboard magazine for the January 1981 issue that the first time he ever played acoustic piano was when the band arrived at the recording studio to record " Lady " and saw the piano in the studio ; DeYoung had written the song on an electric piano, but decided to try it out on the piano instead, and liked the sound so much that he switched to the piano for the recorded version.