Word: chaotically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have often been frustrating, but we basically understand each other," says a high Administration official. "The Socialist-Communist coalition is something else altogether." Washington fears that a Socialist-Communist victory in France could also enhance the opportunities of the large, disciplined Communist Party in Italy, a country with a chaotic political life...
...country was chaotic. Frances FitzGerald was in Saigon the same time that I was. The city was all confusion. Americans were everywhere and stuck together, meeting only other Americans and those Vietnamese who, for one reason or another, were compelled to deal with our self-sufficient and insulated enclaves...
...chaotic days of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, millions of youthful Red Guards were unleashed by Mao Tse-tung to scrub China clean of prerevolutionary ideas. Instead, the Red Guards nearly wrecked the country, and had to be suppressed by the army. Now Mao is turning to youth again. Apparently the Chairman feels that its energy-if carefully controlled by party cadres-can spur the dragging campaign to rid China of revisionist "poison" spread by Lin Piao, Mao's former heir apparent...
...Fine spaces do not "happen"; they are designed, either by consensus over a span of years (like the town plan of San Gimignano in Tuscany) or else by the authoritative work of one man. There is no consensus of the first kind in America: witness the slurping tide of chaotic architectural mutants that passes for an urban experience in any U.S. city. So we are left with the individual architect as form giver: the responsibilities remain...
Henry Kaiser and his Mather House Films cronies gave Harvard audiences a treat very low outside New York or Los Angeles have enjoyed--Wojciech Haas's The Saragossa Manuscript. In his witty, complex fantasy of a chaotic, magical late-medieval society, Haas urges spiritualism as an alternative for social conventions when real social choice is blocked. Beautifully photographed and edited, and acted by Poland's best...