It survived the overreach of progress once before, escaping demolition and rebuilding in the 1970s. That survival was a triumph against the "stridently modernist" plans then put forth.
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A follower or proponent of modernism.
adj
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Pertaining to the culinary arts of molecular gastronomy
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It survived the overreach of progress once before, escaping demolition and rebuilding in the 1970s. That survival was a triumph against the "stridently modernist" plans then put forth.
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Intelligence services in Algeria instead of spying on dangerous people they spy on modernist opponents and the oppressed.