Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This text has the same importance for Post-Modernism as Le Corbusier's Vers une Architecture, published in 1923, did for Modernism. It is, in other words, one of the hinges of recent architectural history. In tone, Venturi's manifesto was almost diffident: "Architects can no longer afford to be intimidated by the puritanically moral language of orthodox modern architecture. I like elements which are hybrid rather than 'pure,' compromising rather than 'clean,' distorted rather than 'straightforward,' ambiguous ... and equivocal rather than direct and clear. I am for messy vitality over obvious unity ... I am for richness of meaning rather...
...price. One freewheeling guess is that the Four Modernizations could cost $800 billion by 1985 The Chinese consumer market may be a long time in developing. Despite all the current capitalist visions of the new market opening up on the mainland, it may be years before the Chinese can afford to pay for all they want. Among other things, Chinese oil reserves, on which Peking heavily counts to earn cash, are afflicted by a number of serious technical problems including a high wax content and great difficulty in extraction owing to geological structure...
...however, may have little choice. Whether it means being host at a new summit or merely launching Vance on another diplomatic shuttle, the Administration cannot afford to lose much time in trying to rekindle the Camp David spirit. The stakes are too high...
...inflationary creep of Americans into higher tax brackets, which makes tax-deductible convention trips about the only vacations many people can afford any more...
...that interested them. The work of all these artists is handsomely presented in S. Peter Dance's The Art of Natural History (Overlook Press; unpaginated; $49.50), a handsome, oversized volume that does as much justice to painters and sculptors as it does to their subjects. Naturalists who can afford it will find this book an invaluable reference. Others may want to take a scissors to it; many of the pictures are so lively that they fairly roar to be released from the pages and freed to hang on walls...