Word: constructive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Schwartz's often epigramatic script is imaginative, humorous, and insightful. At times it is almost musical in construct, with choral effects and the use of repeated images or words to introduce recurrent themes and to identify characters. But it is almost too complex and episodic for coherent drama...
...first section of Tunnel was built in 1914, but it took years to construct the system that exists today. The line from Weld Hall in the Yard to Langdell Hall at the Law School, for example, was not completed until 1927. Before the Tunnel, each building had its own boiler to supply steam for heating radiator water and domestic water. Now, steam for almost the whole University comes from a single source...
...President Johnson wants to retain the loyalty and active support of the Kennedy family and of Democratic politicians throughout the country who still feel a deep allegiance to the late President. Johnson does not want, the commentator said, to put Robert Kennedy on the ticket. Therefore Shriver, who helped construct the Kennedy machine in 1960 and has good personal relations with many "Kennedy men" in the party, appears to be the only other man who can keep the Kennedy machine intact...
Booming land prices seriously affect the big housing developers, who must construct more expensive homes to recover the cost of the plot and thus risk losing their mass market. Dallas' Centex Construction Co., the fourth biggest U.S. home builder, had to go 20 miles outside Chicago to find land cheap enough for its middle-income Elk Grove Village. The asking price for virgin land 30 miles from San Diego-with no houses around, no sewage or water service-is $3,500 an acre. Sometimes the price can kill a project. After land along a Houston freeway doubled in price...
...University opposed the "expanding enrollments" clause; the administration had hoped to use funds from the bill to construct an undergraduate science center on Oxford...