Word: construction
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...Consensus There are fault lines in the Obama coalition, to be sure. In a two-party system, it's impossible to construct a majority without bringing together people who disagree on big things. But Obama's majority is at least as cohesive as Reagan's or F.D.R.'s. The cultural issues that have long divided Democrats - gay marriage, gun control, abortion - are receding in importance as a post-'60s generation grows to adulthood. Foreign policy doesn't divide Democrats as bitterly as it used to either because, in the wake of Iraq, once-hawkish working-class whites have grown more...
...latest book, Payback: Debt as Metaphor and the Shadow Side of Wealth, isn't just her first nonfiction book not about literature; it's also a series of speeches. Atwood has turned Payback into a Canadian Broadcast Corporation Massey Lecture Series, in which she explores debt as a cultural construct, from favor-trading in chimpanzee societies to, well, favor-trading among the Corleone clan in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather. This is not a book about how to get out of financial debt or how to manage your accounts. In fact, the last third of the book focuses...
...sand dunes of Scotland's northeast coast have a rugged, unadorned beauty and understated elegance. So when Donald Trump flew his private Boeing jet into Aberdeen airport in 2006 and announced, with typical Trumpian bombast, that he intended to construct a billion-dollar-plus development on the dunes that would include the "greatest golf course ever constructed," he set the stage for a protracted conservation battle that on Monday reached the highest level of Scottish government...
...Despite the criticism from city officials, BC’s effort to construct housing for all of its undergraduates has won plaudits from its Brighton neighbors, who often complain about boisterous groups of students who squeeze into single-family homes for the year, hastening the deterioration of the housing stock and pricing some families out of the neighborhood...
...didn’t blend well and the orchestra sounded thick and almost noisy. In the third section, an energetic dance influenced by Romanian folk tunes, the strings came alive, unified hearty. While the ensemble was well-balanced, its dynamics were often too strong; when the strings attempted to construct a delicate atmosphere, their sound lacked transparency. Zander gestured flamboyantly, seeming to believe he could pull more sound out with his movements.The next piece, Camille Saint-Saens’s “Piano Concerto No. 2,” featured a 13-year-old soloist, George...