Word: intact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...departure on the Moroccan coast. Happy to have demonstrated with Ra II (Ra I was abandoned last year 600 miles from Barbados) that the ancient Egyptians, who sailed such papyrus craft, could have discovered America 40 centuries ago, Heyerdahl proudly noted that his vessel had survived its journey intact. Ra II will eventually be installed in an Oslo museum alongside an earlier ocean-going ship of Heyerdahl design: the balsa raft Kon-Tiki, which made the journey from Peru to Polynesia...
Indeed, in very few places was the tradition ever more than mimicked anyway. The Western architectural conventions were transferred intact, without any thought to modify them to suit the environment. The only exceptions are relatively small, like the Spanish missions in California. Buildings were built like Greek temples and were used as banks: Gothic cathedrals grew up in downtown Manhattan...
...Referring to potentially explosive situations, James Q. Wilson. chairman of the CRR, said. "If you're in doubt about it, stay away from the crowds." He added. "We have to persuade them, individual by individual to stop these actions to allow an intellectual atmosphere to remain more or less intact." Such a philosophy could stifle legitimate political dissent...
...Village and the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco. Don McNeill was a participant-observer of this culture, and he recorded its moments as they were happening, and as they accepted him, without any postmortem analysis or morning-after perspectives, McNeill presents the growing pains of the counter-culture intact and unviolated-the reader is free to judge them for himself against the chaotic results of the present-day aftermath...
...survival, McNeill died in August 1968, shortly before the Democratic Convention. He did not live to see the chaos and disillusionment that were to come in its wake. But the book preserves his dreams, and the dreams of those he writes about as they were when they were still intact. And even though their reality has faded, it is good to have this reminder of their promise...