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...problem here is access People are real dissatisfied with access says Dr. Peter J. Zaromskis '66, director of the UHS urgent care clime. "I think that's really an important problem. It's because of the constraint of costs...
William McDonough, consulting architect for the Wal-Mart project and one of the most visionary of the green designers, thinks environmental consciousness is not merely a new constraint on his profession, but has the potential to create a new aesthetic. It was the unfortunate coincidence of cheap oil and the ability to fabricate large sheets of glass, he argues, that led to the "modern" office buildings pioneered by architects like Mies van der Rohe in the 1950s. Architectural movements since then -- notably postmodernism -- have been purely superficial, decorative responses to that style. "That's why this movement is so exciting...
Clinton's evolving concern with America's deficit should be similarly welcomed. A Democratic President who forgoes his party's traditional obsession with policies that redistribute the wealth in favor of programs that address the economy's most severe constraint should be applauded. And whether or not any of the rest of his "New Democrat" agenda becomes law, if Clinton substantially reduces the debt he will be widely hailed. So Clinton is right to back off his plan for a middle-class tax cut and right again to "revisit" the proposal to increase gasoline taxes, regressive levies he routinely dismissed...
...three tones of voice or registers of diction, or, simply, by being short. As Helen Vendler has noted, the situations and contexts in an Ashbery poem relate not to one another but to the poem's (emotional) center. The poems are often strongest when some structural constraint adds to their centripetal force...
...much of the history is presented flatly; neither the faceoff between the Red Guard and the White Guard nor the constraint by censors of the protagonist writer Sergei Leontevich Maksudov feel effectively threatening or looming or tragic. The play, in fact, ultimately derives its strength not from the drama of its history but in spite of it. What is most engaging about the play is not the main plot but the subplot, not the tragic sequences tracing Stalinist repression but the comic theatrical sequences woven into the interstices. The comic representation of life at the Moscow Art Theatre...