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...inhibit individual initiative and sometimes cripples the ability of men and women to work toward a better future." Buckley cited the examples of Hong Kong and South Korea, in which increases in population were accompanied by rapid economic growth because, he said, the private sector has been allowed to flourish...
...alike. Behind the replies, however, there is disquiet, a nagging sense that somehow the country has lost its way, that its biblical promise to be a "light to the nations" has dimmed. The recurrent theme is that a nation born of ideals has, in its attempt to survive and flourish, lost its grip on the destiny that made it special; that Israel has become just another nation, flawed and fallible. In kibbutzim and Tel Aviv apartments, army posts and Jerusalem cafes, Israelis echo what one of their best-known novelists, Amos Oz, plaintively asked in his book In the Land...
...than one-third full, the US. Olympic track-and-field team was determined last week in a stirring celebration of more than Carl Lewis, but Lewis most of all. Before a man can win four gold medals, he must qualify in four events, and Lewis did this with a flourish, though without posting any records. Fragile Sprinter Evelyn Ashford's gold-medal ambitions declined from three to two. Hurdlers Edwin Moses and Greg Foster rejoiced. Mary Decker found out she could run only as far as the law would allow. And a wound-up Methuselah named Ed Burke took...
...celebratory space, full of light and air. The view through the glass as one mounts and descends can only sharpen the pleasurable contrast between nature and culture that was the point of Philip Johnson's original garden design. The escalator bank is Pelli's mam flourish. The galleries themselves are neutral, not Architecture with...
...bottom, there are others that suggest the land-tropical nature, in its fleshy leafings and embowerings. The plants, or colonies, or whatever they are, ramify from narrow stems; sometimes they reverse the "normal" look of sculpture-well planted, firmly accommodating itself to its own weight-and seem to flourish in a zone of reduced gravity, where things float and spread. Always they are airy, open. In formal terms, their ancestry is constructivism, and they are part of the extended family whose American patriarch was David Smith, a fact that Graves acknowledges in giving some of her works names like Zaga...