Word: facilely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...totals for both Munich and Montreal. While refusing to give an official cost estimate, the Soviet government does say that income from sports lotteries, tour ism, commemorative stamp sales, souvenirs and television rights should more than cover building costs. The Soviets also point out that all the new Olympic facil ities will be put to good use after the games. The Olympic Village (see box), for example, will become a housing project for 12,000 lucky citizens. Indeed, the 1980 Olympics will be not just a sporting event, but a festival of architecture and technology. Some of the highlights...
...mainland Asia. I think you are going to maintain the old line, or forward defense perimeter, that starts in the Aleutians and runs down through Japan, Okinawa, the Philippines and possibly Singapore. Your anchor will have to be the Philippines. There is no other anchor. Initially Singapore's facil ities will be available. But Singapore's facilities are going to be made available to Russia. Russian warships have been reported serviced and refitted in Singapore. Your military must be watching this...
Ironically his attack on simplistic French attitudes precedes his own incredibly facil analysis of the United States. Without Marx or Jesus hardly bothers with American society. It is relegated to a series of confused vignettes supposedly confirming Revel's thesis. Witness: Leonard Bernstein's Black Panther cocktail party demonstrates a great depth of revolutionary commitment; the opposition to the "no knock" search law shows the growth of civil libertarianism; the movie of The Strawberry Statement indicates artistic fervor; the Hare Krishna Society and the Jesus freaks glow with revolution; and so do all students, all women, all liberals...
...recommend planning by architects for community clusters where children, their parents and the elderly can intermingle, each group bringing its experience, knowledge and support to the other. University of Michigan's John Platt visualizes clusters he calls "childcare communities" which resemble communes: in addition to enlarged recreational and shopping facil ities, they would include centralized schoolrooms, dining rooms (for both adults and children) and kitchens...