Word: makeshiftness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enervated age, insecure from the recent death of God and the apparent dissolution of the moral universe, can ill afford to lose the concept of art as total resistance. Who else will defy the helpless clutching at makeshift gods by a society desperately in search of meaning? So you see why they are romantic heroes...
...three-story rented house near the brown Bassac River, within sight of grazing elephants. His bed, one of the few pieces of furniture in the place, was donated by the landlady. Bachelor Rives and his diplomatic staff of two (a secretary and a communications expert) work in a makeshift office in the servants' quarters, using packing cases as a conference table. It is not unusual for Rives to answer telephone calls himself. The rest of the American diplomatic presence consists of two military men, both colonels and each with two servants, who rush about in rented cars...
Making It Worse. If widely adopted, these makeshift devices could be dangerous. The need to refinance mortgages or bonds every five years or so would create endless headaches for home buyers and builders of schools, roads and factories. Variable interest rates would amount to a recognition that lenders expect continued inflation. That in itself could explosively aggravate the nation's inflationary psychology, which is the basic problem. In the long run, the U.S. simply cannot have healthy long-term capital markets in the midst of inflation. The need to ensure a continued flow of long-term money into houses...
...made for the students of Harvard College. This reporter remembers being told in his House that the rather strange arrangement of having each House and the whole Freshman class elect one member each, and then having three members selected at random from the resulting eleven candidates, was a makeshift process. Many students had the impression that the student selections for the Committee of Fifteen were simply a temporary arrangement. This impression was reaffirmed by the fact that the three students who were finally selected were all graduating seniors...
Lacy Elementary School in Hondo, Texas, is so overcrowded that some classes meet in a makeshift room built into the balcony of the auditorium, and in two noisy rooms off the gym. The 500 pupils, mostly Mexican American, are packed so closely together that illnesses spread rapidly among them...