Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pretence that society is regulated by eternal, iron laws applying to particular areas is finally revealed for what it is: a pretence. The true structure of society appears rather in the independent, rationalized and formal partial laws whose links with each other are of necessity purely formal (i.e., their formal interdependence can be formally systematised), while as far as concrete realities are concerned they can only establish fortuitous connections. --George Lukacs...
After a meeting of the American Council on Education (ACE) last year, the Council appointed the presidents of five colleges "to iron out confusion between college presidents and the Department of HEW," according to committee chairman Derek Bok. Three of the universities represented on the committee--Harvard, the University of Michigan and Columbia--were then under investigation by HEW. Columbia soon became the first institution to lose Federal funds for failure to comply with the executive order, when the government withheld $13.8 million for several months until HEW accepted a revised affirmative action plan last month...
...protective concrete revetments. Once a plane is safely parked, the pilot climbs out and is handed a cold can of Budweiser. While he sips the brew, a yellow forklift truck trundles up with armaments, and the ground crew hurriedly rearms the Phantom with an awesome array of weaponry-iron bombs, rockets and napalm canisters. Normally, the entire operation takes only 20 minutes. The beer never gets warm before the pilot climbs back into his Phantom to take off on another sortie...
...Crimson scores were "darned good ones" Kistner said. "The greens were bumpy, and it was freezing out there," he added. Kistner, however, did not have to worry about the greens, sinking an 8-iron on a par 4 for his first lifetime eagle...
...enclosure, of invisible watchers. Space, in the rest of Piranesi's work, is (for all its exaggerations) measurable. In the Prisons it is not. No imaginative effort can deduce a real building from these scribbled and echoing crypts, with their swinging cables, their proliferating vaults and huge iron grilles: one imagines Piranesi, gripped by some mastering paranoia, trying to stabilize it and give it a "real" form. In the 18th century, opium was the usual medicine for fever, and perhaps the Carceri were inspired by it; certainly their feeling of limitless dread, of imprisonment by infinite space, pertains...