Word: ordered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from a faceless voice on television while the camera focused on an empty lectern-he did become an aggressive international leader. He was among the first of the Arabs to nationalize precious natural resources. He acquired wide respect among nonaligned nations with his 1973 call for a new economic order, more equitably sharing the riches of the industrial nations with the Third World. That world, as well as Algeria, will especially miss...
...that asceticism may also be quoted. The work of Richard Meier in particular, and to a lesser extent that of Charles Gwathmey and Michael Graves, is permeated by the Corbusian dream of the "white world," the building as a metaphor of clarity, order and singularity set against the enveloping otherness of nature. (If Mies and the grid-internationalists have ceased to be quotable, Le Corbusier has not; and the difference is due to the richness of Corbu's ideas, his use of volume and surface rather than abstract space.) Meier's architecture is highly abstract, but it is not inhospitable...
When the White House forthrightly announced that Jimmy Carter was in severe pain from a bad case of hemorrhoids and that surgery was being considered, inevitably there were some jokes. It is not an ailment an individual elects to advertise unless, like Carter, he must in order to cancel a day's schedule without giving the stock market a heart attack. There was also a great deal of sympathy, tacit and expressed. Wrote one Egyptian: "May Allah cure you. This illness should have been inflicted on an unjust leader rather than you, O Carter...
...order to break the existing pattern of dependence and put an end to the erosion of competence, citizens will have to take the solution of their problems into their own hands. They will have to create their own 'communities of competence.' Only then will the productive capacities of modern capitalism, together with the scientific knowledge that now serves it, come to serve the interests of humanity instead. In a dying culture, narcissism appears to embody-in the guise of personal 'growth' and 'awareness'-the highest attainment of spiritual enlightenment. The custodians of culture hope...
...York Times broke the news of the suspensions and included speculation concerning the identities of the athletes. On December 11th, the AAU released an official statement confirming the Times story, in which it claimed that the news of the suspensions had not been made public in order to allow time for each of the athletes to be notified by certified mail. The AAU refused at this time, as it continues to do, to release the names of the swimmers involved...