Word: construction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that their lives have a purpose. Cruelty, Levanter muses, is magnified when those in authority "forget that their power is nothing more than a temporary camouflage of mortality." When a wealthy widow asks Levanter to marry her, he becomes frightened at the suggestion that the two of them can construct a fate for themselves: "A superstition lingered in him that if they did so chance might turn from a benefactor to the ultimate terrorist, punishing both of them for trying to control their own lives, trying to create a life plot...
...five legislators who went out to Walpole last week came out demanding a gubernatorial investigation into the prison. Gov. Michael S. Dukakis has asked the legislature to approve an increase in the budget to construct two more medium security jails, but the legislators who visited Walpole say--along with the inmates--the root of the tension isn't overcrowding, but the attitude of the prison administration toward the prisoners' conditions. But the governor seems likely to ignore that request. Although Dukakis said Thursday he will appoint an investigatory committee, he will continue to push for more jails, rather than more...
...desiecle elitism of the British upper class converting into fascism, is simply a poor fit. It is like trying to find a practical use for a lovely collection of China vases. Perhaps it is because he realizes this, that Trevor-Roper submerges himself once more in his artful construct of the mystery of Backhouse. Our final conclusion about whether the diary was forged should be based, Trevor-Roper contends, not on the evidence of the manuscripts, but on the character of Backhouse...
...rebel who shamelessly flouted the conventions and laws of his world. He was a heretic whereas David is a devotee who, in his own words, approaches sex as if it were "sacred ground." In fact, what Roth seems to do in The Professor of Desire is to construct a kind of summary of sexuality, in which he attempts to integrate sex with other aspects of human experience. Passion is the book's central doctrine. It is a source of both aspiration and destruction, the most fundamental ingredient for survival and, in the struggle between license and restraint, the means...
...essential desire of constructivism -from De Stijl to the Bauhaus in Germany, and particularly with the Russian avant-garde in its flowering through the early years of the revolution-was to construct a beauty that could not be found in nature. Only one metaphor was allowed to intrude into the garden of absolute form: that of the machine. The dynamics of manufacture supplied, for Russian constructivism, the prototype of revolution This permitted Tallin, Rodchenko, El Lissitzky and others to create, during the first years after the Soviet Revolution, the only radical art of the 20th century that meshed with radical...