Word: fortress
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Moines Bishop Maurice Dingman, 68, explains the change: "We have gone from being a fortress church to a lighthouse church. When we were an immigrant church, we put a wall around the people, and we did a good job of protecting them. We maintained their faith. But we could no longer stay in our shelter. We let down the drawbridge and crossed the moat, and we're out in the mainstream of America...
...firm of Edwards Madigan Torzillo Briggs Pty. Ltd., in a high-speech version of the idiom that used to be called New Brutalism 20 years ago-aggressive concrete planes and deep slots of shadow, directly descended from late Le Corbusier. To this is added some invocation of palace and fortress architecture. The plan has a very strong sense of procession, and is designed to allow a large flow of visitors, estimated at about 1 million a year, to stream through its halls. Three of its sides look like an irresolute jumble of sheds. The fourth, facing the High Court building...
...motto, FREEDOM. When he bought a limousine equipped with a bar and television, he also ordered a special nook for the gun he always carried. In December 1978, the night after he picked up the car from the dealer, he was shot to death during a robbery in his fortress-like office. He was 41. Lee's brother Jamiel ("Jimmy") was a professional gambler who was known to win or lose a million dollars in a single night in Las Vegas. But his gambling was financed by a more deadly game. In 1979 Jimmy,described by federal prosecutors...
...like a typical symptom of corporate bloating. In fact, the selections reflect President Bok's conscious desire for a decentralized administration made up of experts who independently rule. That structure on the whole seems to have worked remarkably well during Bok's 11 years. Certainly it has eased the fortress mentality that prevailed beore 1971. Bok's predecessor, Nathan M. Pusey '28, relied exclusively on a tiny inner circle of all-purpose advisors and was widely blamed for mismanaging events such as the student protests of the late 1960s...
...novels, Birdy and Dad, does not benefit from having its plot laid bare. The author's gift is an ability to convey emotional clarity in simple prose that transforms incongruities into sharp visual impressions. Snowy woods are both Christmas cards and killing grounds; the château is fortress and cultural repository. A violin liberated from beneath the rafters becomes part of an unusual still life when it is casually set against a box of hand grenades...