Word: constructive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the astronauts' success. Cape Kennedy is economically depressed. Now the Rev. Carl Mclntire, the right-wing Fundamentalist, plans a dual revival-fiscal and spiritual-for the ailing area. He will construct his version of heaven at the space center. His real estate purchases in recent weeks amount to an estimated $25 million and include the Cape Kennedy Hilton, a convention hall, office buildings, apartments and undeveloped land...
This "Home, Home on the Delta" type predominates in USAID, but neither the Embassy nor USIA could survive without him. He is not bothered by contradictions between today's and tomorrow's official rationalizations for American actions, nor does he bother to construct claborate and doomed-to-fail personal justifications for his guilty participation, as does the liberal mentioned above, nor is he disturbed by such phenomena as the ubiquitous anonymous presence of CIA agents-"ghosts." When asked to justify the American presence in Laos, this cog is likely to respond with something like this: "Do you realize that before...
...Russians after 1913, construction meant more than building; it was building in a particular manner. To construct was not to carve a piece of Ivory soap (nor English Lavender, as one's taste might be), nor was it just to amass bricks into the shape of a building; rather, to construct was to put parts together emphasizing space, not mass; it was like making a match-stick house...
...carving or of modelling), enabled this group of artists to look at society in spatial terms. No longer did the Soviet society have to be a mass that could only be carved away or molded into massive forms, but instead, society was more than pliant; the artist could construct a society; he could create the gestalt rather than merely alter it; the Constructivist was concerned with a new metaphysics in terms of tectonics...
...finally to be ill and old, she permits the makeup man to do his worst and appears pitiable indeed. In its own way, her vital, uninhibited performance is mere makeup, covering the scenario's merchandised nostalgia. There is, of course, the melancholy possibility that the Dassins wished to construct a burlesque. Sadder still, they probably imagine that they have fashioned a eulogy...