Word: flow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...official Eduard Sekler notes that all the existing masterpieces of urban design have evolved over a period of centuries, and before the advent of the elevator. Harvard Professor Willo von Moltke demonstrates, however, that Sekler's chief criteria--proportion, symbolic placement of essential buildings, "visual continuity," and reasonable traffic flow--can be employed in designing a new city (Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela). Both articles are effectively illustrated...
...actions, a great deal of it from within his own Church. "Sure I get criticized on this...but the only hope of the Church is to make itself relevant. It gets upset about free love, I get upset about free hate. It's one thing to say let justice flow, another to work with irrigation...If you visit a guy in prison, he's interested in a job when he gets out. If you're really concerned you gotta get involved with the problem of unemployment...
...overly strong and inexact word. By it I meant just what your letter implies, that you provide "an intellectual framework...to clarify action." I also believe and meant to suggest, that it is from this "framework," not from a direct empathy with specific human problems, that your passions chiefly flow. I did not intend to express disapproval of your approach, which is after all the approach of men as dissimilar and intelligent as Walter Lippman and Vladimir Lenin...
...settle a longstanding feud between Arizona and California over use of the waters of the Colorado River. Continuing Mexican complaints have finally persuaded the U.S. to agree to dig a canal to divert salt-polluted waters from Arizona irrigation runoff before they can re-enter the Colorado and flow past Mexican cropland. But diplomacy has not yet managed to move the Jordanians and Israelis to settle their quarrel over who should divert how much water and where from the Jordan...
...Warne, director of the California Department of Water Resources. "Not one in a million." Yet the people, who use and misuse water, who pay the taxes and vote on the bond issues for water development and conservation, must make the political and economic commitment that will ensure a steady flow of it. Though it may be considered a gift of God, water must be harnessed and husbanded by people...