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...architect's scale model. The low-rise section has the sinuousness and personality of a granite python, and the tower rises mute like an Aztec altar. Some people claim that architecture like this requires a new grammar of response; I think instead that Mather House almost demands that we abandon our way of seeing...
...When the record was announced, "it was as if everyone in the assemblage had bellows for lungs. Cheer upon cheer rolled up and was reechoed back from the other side of the Charles River. Hats were tossed high in the air with reckless abandon. None thought or cared what became of them. The crowd had but one thought-to pay homage to one of the greatest performances in the annals of track and field history...
...that he's got on? O my God, a strike T-shirt! This guy's out there dancing in his underwear with a big, red fist stencilled on his belly. And, you could hear the tempo quicken, and everyone gulp down another drink, and throw themselves into saving abandon...
...yesterday may, on gaining a social victory over their detractors, exhibit the same arrogance." It was a comment typical of his hardheaded, pragmatic realism in human affairs. His successor as the leader of Protestant thought cannot avoid dealing with Niebuhr's forceful logic; he will have to abandon it deliberately or build...
...action necessary in the first place. Moreover, as John Krizay of the 20th Century Fund points out, the determination of doctors' fees is simply "not in the marketplace." Doctors, he notes, can and do create their own demand for their services. One way around that fact is to abandon the fee-for-service method of payment entirely and put doctors on salary; one way to accomplish that is to put health care on a prepayment basis...