Word: construction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people realize that the attempt to construct theatres on the basis of acoustical experiments goes back at least to George Saunders designs of 1790. And those who have not yet had the thrill of visiting the Grand Opera in Paris (1861-75) can get an idea of this magnificent building and its celebrated staircase from three engraving here...
With the arrangement of the 'Cliffe dormitories into a House system, however, and President Bunting's plan to construct a modern new library in the House area, Cliffies may need library and study facilities closer to their classes in Harvard Yard. (The Radcliffe dorms are located about seven blocks from the Yard...
...that sword is slaying us. Many things will have to be destroyed in order to construct the New Order; now we know that Germany is one of these things." Since every event is unique, nobody is permanently good or evil in a Borges story. A traitor at one time becomes a hero at another, a friend an enemy. Reputations are strangely inverted. In one story, a theologian reasons that Judas was actually God, because God would have chosen the "vilest destiny of all" to redeem mankind. In another, the fearsome Minotaur of Greek legend turns...
...fine. But Mrs. Bunting had even more ambitious plans in mind. To replace the off-campus houses, which have been a drain on the College's financial resources for years, she proposed to build a House and solicited students' on how to construct it. The response came from campus dwellers who clung to the shaky frame houses and nothing could be better. Convinced at last that their day was over, them sadly joined in plans for on Garden St. to house 275 undergraduates and 25 faculty members. Somehow the builders will try to incorporate all the advantages of the campus...
...valiantly to reestablish a buried literature written in tongues no longer spoken. The value of this enterprise is unquestioned, but it is, after all, a preliminary exercise. Once a text has been purified and explicated, then it should be read, as a work of art, not merely an antiquarian construct, or a repository of ancient ideas. Latin is no deader than any other language that is written down; all literature is unchanging, but it dies when it is only studied and not read...