Word: builder
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Stepping into the middle of the controversy that has surrounded Afro-Am, Huggins views his role as more a builder than advocate. "I don't see my primary role here as political. I see myself as a scholar-academic whose job it is to construct a good, solid concentration for undergraduates--to maintain and manage a worthy concentration. I would like to be judged on the extent to which I do that." How will Huggins conduct himself in helping defuse the disputes that may arise, as they have so often in the past ten years? "If a complaint makes sense...
...small towns of American reality have been stunningly varied, as Richard Lingeman makes definitively clear in his new history, Small Town America. Lingeman stalks the dream and the reality from colonial days to the present, from Town Builder William Penn's hope for "a green country town, which will never be burnt, and always be wholesome" to the prepackaged sterility of some of today's contrived "new towns." Factory towns, farm towns, railroad towns, cow towns, mining towns, all march through his book. "New England towns with white churches and elm-arched streets ... fugitive transient towns with their...
...achievement, of Soleri. Though Soleri seems simple and humble, Arcosanti's "workshoppers," as his volunteers call themselves, regard him as a genius, evidently because of his preoccupation with things spiritual. When he first came to the U.S. from Turin 33 years ago, he was regarded as a builder with panache and promise. But he has had few commissions in three decades. "I have not been properly used," he insists. One Arcosanti worker says that Soleri is the only architect around today better known for what he has not built than for what...
Naturally, the consequence of such prices is that people are clawing their way into every inch of Manhattan space available. After a long quiescence, builders are now providing more space all the time, both office and living. In the East Side area between 50th and 94th streets?the heart of the matter, if the Big Apple were an artichoke?at least eight new co-ops or condominiums are currently in some stage of completion, all high-rising and luxurious, of course, and all smack in the center of things, which accounts for their appeal. At the proposed 44-story Museum...
...option would be to continue the Polaris system but build it around modernized warheads and the replacement of aging submarines. That scenario would not be feasible unless Lockheed, Polaris' builder, could be persuaded to keep its production line open to provide the missiles for the new Royal Navy subs. A second alternative is a system of cruise missiles that could be mounted on ships, Hovercraft or trucks. Proponents of this plan estimate that Britain could buy and arm 150 cruise missiles for less than $2 billion. The hitch is that the relatively slow-moving missiles are vulnerable to enemy...