single-minded

 "We inherited that single-minded system from an early and outmoded project for national consolidation.

In today's readjustments to global dynamics, mono is a malady of adolescent societies. "

page xv, Bilingual Aesthetics. A New Sentimental Education, Doris Sommer,

becomes again

 "At the end of the meal the chopsticks are thrown away, the few plates are washed and put away, and the dining-room becomes the sitting-room again. Later on it will be a bed-room. There is no moving of furniture, no complication, no clattering of knives, forks and spoons. Everything is of the simplest."

page 108, How one lives in a traditional Japanese House, Design as Art, Bruno Munari.