Word: layers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their ideological mecca but who have grown restive about Berlinguer's tacit support for Premier Giulio Andreotti's Christian Democratic minority government. When Carrillo recently declared that repression of dissidents showed that the "Soviet Union is not really a popular democracy but a dictatorship of a small layer of the country over the rest of the society," Berlinguer scolded him on Italian television, saying: "That is a summary judgment that I do not share...
Teilhard never recanted his basic notion about the existence of a spiritual reality that suffused all matter (man and animals included) and had evolved into a "noosphere"-his term for a layer of human awareness that enveloped the earth like some psychic biosphere. As this envelopment progressed, Teilhard believed, man would eventually transcend his individualism and converge at the "Omega Point" with the Omega -God. Instead of God's creation at the beginning of time, Teilhard emphasized instead his ongoing and future creative activity. To orthodox critics, this vision destroyed the distinction between man and nature, and veered perilously...
...personality is the medium for the translation of feeling into movement. This personality is unique. The one common denominator it contains is energy. Energy, although invisible, can be mathematically worked out and felt intersified. Pure mathematics, I see, as a meeting point with another layer of reality...
...generous and saintly in her suffering as Hardwick asserted in her review, and as Petrement argues throughout this study? Isn't there something just plain wrong with someone who makes a vocation out of subjecting herself to the same oppression that prisoners and workers--whom Weil called "the humiliated layer of the social hierarchy"--had to face? (Compassion is one thing, but self-torture is another...
...first energy-conserving schools, which opens this month for 990 kindergarten through sixth-grade students. Built into a hill in Reston, the school contains four large "learning circles," each of which is divided into eight wedge-shaped classrooms, plus a "media center," a gymnasium and a cafeteria. A layer of soil three to five feet thick covers the top and three sides. A panel structure on top of the hill contains 4,900 solar collectors to turn the sun's rays into heat. The yearly cost for energy to run Terraset is a projected $10,000. Conventional heating would...