Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
REDUCTIVISM
minimalism, minimal art, reductivism
(noun) an art movement in sculpture and painting that began in the 1950s and emphasized extreme simplification of form and color
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(adjective) of such great duration as to preclude the possibility of being assigned a date; “dateless customs”
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