Word: complement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cinematic images of his subject's wide-ranging mind: Merton's opposition to World War II because "if we fight Hitler, we will become like him, too"; his prescient 1963 analysis of the bitterness of black revolt; his final turning toward Buddhism as a "way" that could complement Christianity; his incongruous moments, as when he took the time to see What's New, Pussycat? and thought it very funny. Because Merton was a man of such fevers and contradictions, The Man in the Sycamore Tree cannot be so much an explanation of Merton as a hint...
...longer meet each other on a person-to-person basis, but remain anonymous behind the mask of an apparatus called the automobile. People who would be very polite to each other meeting face to face in a doorway will turn into aggressive idiots behind the wheel." The solution: "To complement the three big Es (engineering, enforcement, education) with two big Ps-personalization and politicization...
TEXAS: No matter which way this one goes, Texas will end up with another conservative Senator to complement John Tower. The upset primary victory of Lloyd Benston over liberal Democrat Sen. Ralph Yarborough was a big victory for the conservative wing of the Texas Democratic Party. Yarborough had a strongly liberal record on the war, civil rights and most other issues...
Lindsey, who received his bachelor's degree in architecture from Howard, has master's degrees in both architecture and city planning from M.I.T. Hedenies that there is any conflict between architects and city planners at Harvard. The departments, he says, are "close and interlocking, they complement each other...
...program notes blazon. Thus, in the Old West Church in Boston, in the midst of some harrowing Urban Renewal skyscrapers, a theatrical group has thrown off the pessimist syndrome which Daniel Moynihan recently tabbed "mediocre." Unfortunately, at this stage in its development, the HTC lacks the artistic expertise to complement its inspiration...