Word: erect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Union Army turned back General Robert E. Lee at Gettysburg, the little southeast Pennsylvania town has degenerated into a tourist trap. Fried-chicken stands, ice cream palaces and motels clutter the surroundings of what Lincoln called consecrated ground. Two years ago, Maryland Entrepreneur Thomas Ottenstein announced plans to erect the most garish attraction yet: a modernistic 307-ft. observation tower overlooking the battleground, complete with $750,000 worth of audio-visual equipment to provide what Ottenstein calls a "classroom...
...Social Democratic Party, who have long suspected Schiller of being too probusiness in his thinking. More important, he clashed with Brandt on the question of monetary policy; when other European countries began imposing financial controls to halt the inflow of unwanted, inflation-breeding dollars, Schiller refused to erect any sort of barrier against the free flow of capital into West Germany. Two weeks ago, at a showdown Cabinet session, Brandt sided with German Central Bank President Karl Klasen, who proposed a set of mild-and so far ineffectual-controls on capital movement. These were immediately enacted over Schiller...
...pointed at the ends like a silver Buck Rogers rocket ship -enough to frighten drivers off the road on Santa Monica Boulevard. North Hollywood's Nudie the Tailor glorified his Pontiac Bonneville with Western regalia. The religious here do not settle for plastic Jesuses on the dash, they erect whole creches and biblical scenes next to the Kleenex boxes in their back windows...
...intellectual energy, of a powerful mind striking to the core of problems which it alone could formulate. Perhaps Matisse was not as "radical" a sculptor as he was a painter. His sculpture was avowedly traditional; it addressed itself, as his paintings did, to the classic themes of the erect or reclining figure, the portrait and the nude. But only a few early modern sculptors - Rodin, Bourdelle and Degas in old age - achieved the same vitality of surface and gesture. One can hardly imagine more joy communicated by the act of squeezing clay, and though Matisse's sculpture...
There are two ways for a city to acquire a cultural center. One is to clear a downtown neighborhood and erect an entire new complex-at a tremendous expenditure of money, time and public inconvenience. New York's Lincoln Center cost $184 million, took ten years to complete, and disrupted traffic and residential life over a 14-acre area for much of that time. The other way is to take an existing theater, such as an abandoned movie palace, and simply refurbish it. This more modest method may produce less grand results, but it is cheaper, quicker and less...