Word: construct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...came out of his self-styled retirement only once, in 1938, to construct a valise containing each of his important works in miniature, really a portable Duchamp museum. He kept a studio, but visitors hunting for some clue that the aging enfant terrible was working again searched in vain. Duchamp died last October, having created little except for occasional graphics, a few objects and the inevitable puns he uttered, in almost 30 years...
...attempt by blacks to construct a distinctively black theology has a strong this-worldly existentialist cast. "The idea of heaven is irrelevant for black theology," says Cone, the author of a recent book called Black Theology & Black Power. "The Christian cannot waste time contemplating the next world, if there is a next." One participant in the session, Preston N. Williams of Boston University, explained: "The black man cannot divorce theology from social action. Whites say, 'That's not theology at all.' The real question is who is going to define the norms of theology." Some Negro churchmen...
...Corporation announced plans to construct about 1100 units of low and middle income housing in Boston, and said that similar plans for Cambridge would be forthcoming soon...
...heard of Poher's platform at a rally in Toulouse. He brought down the house with the laser wit that has constantly amused his large crowds. "I will not recite to you the twelve commandments of God," he assured his audience, but then delightedly mimicked one: "Thou shalt construct housing-without any money, of course...
...court tennis is one of the most devilishly complicated sports ever devised by man -or monk. It takes hours just to understand the rules and years of playing to master the rudiments. The court itself, a stylized version of the old monastery courtyard, costs up to $250,000 to construct. There are only 27 courts in use today, two in France, two in Australia, seven in the U.S. and 16 in Britain, including the one built by Henry VIII at Hampton Court Palace...