Word: constructible
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...their collective actions as a movement. But he also emphasizes how much more research has to be done. In an essay on Protestantism and the American labor movement, he only outlines the "relationship between religious sentiment and rhetoric and everyday behavior." He calls the relationship a "risky" theoretical construct, and asks for more study. In another essay on black mineworkers and the miners' union he traces; the still sketchy life of one of the first black union organizers, Richard Davis, to demonstrate how later middle-class blacks such as Booker T. Washington--who once said that trade unionism was "that...
This year's International School program is headed by Huston Smith and will study "Reality and Truth and Construct: Three Great Perspectives"--the perspectives being the Hindu, Buddhist, and Islamic religions. He stresses that, "Although I respect the theoretical basis of the school that allows personal freedom, a solid academic framework will keep the experience of the year from lacking solid academic focus." An anthropologist and a professor of Arabic studies complete the faculty. In past years, Jaeger, as executive director of the school, has appointed himself to the faculty, but this year his five-and two-year-old children...
...Committee on Research Policy of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which organized the forum, will decide next week whether to recommend that Harvard construct a facility for the controversial research, Edward L. Pattullo, director of the Center for Behavioral Sciences and executive secretary of the committee, said yesterday...
...lying on a street in Baltimore, near delirium, dying. In his last contact with friends, in Richmond, he had said he planned to take a boat to Baltimore. No record of the sailing was ever found. Argento and Librettist Charles M. Nolte have used that mysterious boat ride to construct a metaphoric voyage of selfdiscovery: Poe, the crazed poet, relives his loves, sins and miseries...
...give us is an Alice in Wonderland rule of revolving logic: that the irrationality of madness is such that it can never really be defined or predicted, like an enfant terrible who out of whim kicks down any castle of philosophical building blocks that the inquirer might care to construct around him. Which is a perfectly valid point, though it hardly requires a book, as the five lines of the epigraph demonstrate...