Word: construction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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France's no-longer-new New Novelists have found few imitators in the U.S. James Salter, 40, is one of the exceptions. His model seems to be Alain Robbe-Grillet, who labors in his books to "construct a space and time purely mental, that of a dream or memory." Perhaps in tribute, Salter sets his third book in France. His subject is the love affair between Anne-Marie Costallat, an 18-year-old who looks like a child but eats like a dock hand, and young Phillip Dean, a Yale dropout who has been wandering through Europe with "that...
...League's neglect, Miss Switzer added, is even more serious for the handicapped students who are admitted. The schools continue to construct buildings which students confined to wheelchairs cannot use, and their health services do not have "daily relationship" with the nearest Rehabilitation Center...
Daniel Michaelson has done a masterful job with the set. His problem was to construct a backdrop that would allow quick exits from many positions on two levels, and could serve for living room or basement or operating room. He managed it with a series of swiveling slats that should be seen by anyone who plans to design a House production. Alan P. Symonds has done a careful job with the lighting, which is also a good deal more sophisticated than one expects at a House play...
Armed with little more than the name lists of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central Committee elected in 1945 and 1956-58 (some 200 men), one could construct the tables of organization of virtually all important organizations in China today--principally the CCP, the government bureaucracy, the army, and the ubiquitous "mass" (or "people's") organizations. There were only two major chinks in the armor of leadership solidarity from the establishment of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1949 to early 1966. The first of these was the purge in 1955 of Kao Kang, the former political boss...
What he seems to have done, however, is construct an informal, ad hoc framework to get things done...