Word: creation
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...issues are clear and crucial; loss of significant tax revenue, the conscious creation of urban blight, the annihilation of an entire neighborhood, a significant increase in pollution and the dangerously uncontrolled expansion of an institution. Public awareness of this huge plan is mysteriously low; press and media interest is almost non-existent; and yet in only a few short weeks Harvard plans to break ground for what could be the beginning of unchecked expansion on Mission Hill...
Flag-Waving Mobs. These developments, culminating a week of mounting political tension, confronted those backing the creation of a parliamentary democracy in Portugal with their most serious challenge since the Revolution 15 months ago. Earlier in the week, Socialist demonstrators had denounced the military leadership; the Communist Party had responded by summoning its members to a "state of vigilance." On the extreme left, flag-waving mobs marched to demand dissolution of the democratically elected Constituent Assembly. They were supported by hundreds of soldiers from Artillery Regiment No. 1, widely known as the most radical in the country, who had brought...
...first moderates to quit the Cabinet were the Mario Soares Socialists, who protested against the M.F.A.'s political blueprint for the creation of local revolutionary councils, which would virtually eliminate political parties (TIME, July 21). The Socialists were followed last week by the centrist Popular Democrats (P.P.D.) and by two independent ministers, who pulled out of the coalition when they failed to receive assurances from the military that press freedom would be restored and parliamentary democracy would be established...
...important"), death ("I don't believe in it, because you're not around to know that it's happened"), and his unnerving experiences as a TV talk-show guest ("I just sit there saying I'm going to faint' "). To promote his latest creation, Warhol has offered to autograph every copy of Philosophy ordered by bookstores and wholesalers before July 25. At last count he had written some 12,000 signatures and was still going strong. Good business, after all, is the best...
...woven carpet, just as Calvino's empire preserves some semblance of our own. According to an oracle, "questioned about the mysterious bond between two objects so dissimilar as the carpet and the city," one has a god-given form, and the other is "an approximate reflection, like every human creation...