Word: constructively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proposal doesn't "uninvent" nuclear weaponry--Schell concedes that is impossible but rather seeks to use the everlasting knowledge of how to construct nukes as deterrent against another power attempting nuclear blackmail. The difference is that, instead of the current seven minute time lapse between the commencement of hostilities and Armageddon, the lag would be anywhere from a week to a few months...
...Olympics centers on individual heroes, yet heroism in the Games is lightweight; it bears none of the mythic armor of professional sports. With professional athletes, allegories develop with the records; Mantle was pain, Unitas skill, Ali poetry and power. The Olympic Games are too brief for spectators to construct a folklore. Personalities like Nadia float to the top for a few days, but only as they are attached to performances. The hero and the act are one. If an allegorical hero is to be found in the Games, it is youth in general. A time of life is held still...
Israel's illegal pre-independence army, Yadin used his knowledge of biblical history and ancient fortifications to help construct modern battle plans. Two decades later, after gaining acclaim for obtaining the Dead Sea Scrolls and other ancient manuscripts, he led the excavations at the fortress of Masada, where he proved that nearly 1,000 Jewish defenders committed suicide in A.D. 73 rather than surrender to the Romans...
...Israel's construct is simple. He manipulates his characters and the plot to set up the pure existential, choice, a Sartrean quandry-cum-Kafkaesque absurdity. Does Rick shtup Tracy, the modern-day Aphrodite, at the party, and lose his marriage, or does he stick to his goes for a set of out-dated moral strictures that Israel effectively shows are no longer relevant...
Currently Harvard's lab, which costs about $2 million annually--not a high figure in the world of high-energy physics--is used primarily to construct sophisticated equipment that will be used at other labs says Richard G. Leahy, associate dean for research and the Allied Institutions. Almost all of this money comes from the federal government, he adds...