Word: domains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...judged more or less good or evil according to the tendencies of philosphers, always remains external, if not hostile, to man. Man has therefore set the society that he has constructed against the nature that he has controlled. The violence of nature had to be maintained outside the domain reserved by man for society. The defense system was achieved and maintained by the creation of a morality and a religion...
...deal that led to the payment began more than a year ago, when the city council voted to take the vacant lot by eminent domain. Based on an old appraisal, they paid Harvard $480,000 for the land...
...EACH academic domain, there are trendsetters. With the ability to capture the thoughts of a group of intellectuals and the authority to convince, this thinking-man's gentry can produce a book which liberates a community of critics. In this tradition, Mary McCarthy's Ideas and the Novel has prompted a ferocious critical attack on modern action...
Ronald Reagan's first two visits to Washington after his election were triumphal processions through a capital that marveled at his charm. His third tour of his new domain last week was more like a general's inspection of the troops he will shortly have to fling into a decisive battle. Preparations for the Inaugural gala were overshadowed by a series of warnings that the new Administration must begin moving almost immediately to meet what is clearly its biggest challenge: mending the battered American economy...
These places are Greeneland nonetheless, and this autobiography is proof enough that only he could have lived and imagined them into the public domain they now occupy. The book shows some signs of carelessness. Much of it is composed of a series of introductions Greene wrote for an English edition of his works, and the stitching between these set pieces and interpolated transitions is often loose. Little matter. The story is fascinating, whatever Greene says, and spiced with ir resistible anecdotes. Producer Sam Zimbalist once asked Greene to revise the end of a script for a remake...