Word: constructed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...social sciences, we are taught to distinguish and use the various constructs men have super-imposed on macroscopic human relations. We are asked to imitate and admire successful paradigm-makers. Fun? Yes, but no finite construct has or can adequately describe let alone explain any large sum of human activity...
...time getting put to bed than Scanlan's November issue. The muckraking monthly has been struggling since Oct. 1 to find a printer who would handle the edition. Given over to "Guerrilla War in the U.S.A.," the November Scanlan's contains drawings and instructions on how to construct, place and detonate types of homemade bombs. At least eight printers said...
...Sixth Naval District headquartered in Charleston, has ordered Seabee units, whose training often consists of building bridges and docks only to knock them down again, to undertake permanent projects. In line with Z-grams, he had them build a shed so that men with motorcycles could park their vehicles, construct a marina, outfit an automobile hobby shop and panel the walls of living quarters...
...represent a real world: but in this trompe-l'oeil reality, the thing which is not real is the painting itself. The canvas dissolves and contradicts its own nature as a two-dimensional surface; it becomes a window opening on a view. The Cubists proposed to construct an undivided reality that would involve no such fictions: to put a tangible world on a flat, tangible surface...
LACKING an elemental confidence in their nation's flimsy architectural foundations, Americans continue to construct buildings which will conform to their need for a tradition -buildings which, however, bear no relation to the functional sensibility required today. These buildings, consequently, fail to grab the imagination or heart of contemporary America; they remain unintegrated and distant from the world they seek to underpin...