A movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms.
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The United States, you imagine, would of all nations be the freest from classicalism.
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The psychological descent into classicalism is always a strong possibility.
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Sited in the subtropical zone of Oaktier, the capital was a monument to both progress and classicalism.
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We have almost no spiritual weapons against classicalism: universities, churches, newspapers are by-products of a commercial success; we have no tradition of intellectual revolt.
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We want to create a sustained counter effort to the perpetual tendency of all educational organisations towards classicalism, secondary issues, and the evasion of life.