Word: construction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Orton spoon feeds his audience shock and grotesquerie, he doesn't throw it in their face. He uses an acute comic talent to show how people lose themselves in petty, selfish, and deviate concerns. The playwright has taken the time he is serving at a leading London prison to construct a careful play which grows progressively grotesque as the characters perceive and accommodate each other's desires...
Gentlemen: I do not know--none of us can know--whether our involvement in Vietnam is going to end in such a way as to permit us to have another chance to construct foreign policy on the basis of concept. It is difficult to conceive, personally, of any outcome of our present efforts and approaches that would be less than disastrous...
...Build more roads from country to country, improve harbors and construct new satellite-using telecommunications systems to enable Latin Americans to travel, trade and talk more readily among themselves...
After long years of studying chimpanzees, University of Amsterdam Zoologist Adriaan Kortlandt, 49, is convinced that they do not live up to their full potential. Although chimps in captivity often construct crude shelters and mimic many of man's other activities, their behavior in the wild seems far less advanced. Since they are endowed with many human-like qualities, Kortlandt asks, "why have chimpanzees in the course of their evolution not achieved a more human way of life and a corresponding level of culture...
When one is under the influence of L.S.D., one can ignore the facts that were previously held to be valid and construct new beliefs, no matter how irrational. Such forms of thinking bear many similarities to psychosis. A person may feel that he has powers which he did not previously have, or that certain laws of the environment (such as vulnerability) are not operative in his case. For example, feeling omnipotent, he believes he can jump out of the window with no harmful results...