Word: portion
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...cover article [Aug. 2] exemplifies the disturbing preoccupation with monumentality that exists in our society. Architecture as the molding of a physical environment can make no significant changes in how human beings live unless it is linked with a change in the social, political and economic environments. The major portion of the architecture you show expresses the "needs, priorities, aspirations" of the corporation, the industrial megalith and a national state of mind that is more interested in the economics of production and performance than in the amelioration of the human condition...
...tone therefore had clearly changed since Bob Dylan's abortive performance in 1964 when he was hooted from the festival's stage because he appeared playing electric guitar accompanied by a rock band. Perhaps not strangely, with Dylan's return to grace, many unhappy aficionados spent a good portion of this year's festival waiting for and speculating on the possibility of his appearance. And with some of Dylan's more zealous followers speculation lapsed into exhortation and attempted conjuration. Nevertheless all such efforts failed...
Plato's follower, Aristotle, disagreed with the abolition of family life, but applied much of the Presidential Academy teachings to the son of Philip II of Macedonia at the ruler's request. Who emerged from the system and conquered a major portion of the world? Alexander the Great...
About 30 minutes later a Checker cab driven by Boruff entered the front portion of the campus. Some students testify that Boruff was asked to leave while the campus was amid turmoil. Boruff, they report, continued driving. Coming to a second group of students some say Boruff was chased. Others say he tried to run over students, then was chased. Neither version has been confirmed...
Despite Britain's various economic ills, one thriving enterprise racked up record sales of over $60 million last year. This was Harrods department store, a venerable London institution, where a good portion of the total-some $14 million-was spent by non-British customers. Foreigners were so thick on the ground at Harrods earlier this month that, as Managing Director Alfred Spence recalls, "You were hard pressed to find English spoken in some departments." What brings them there is partly a feeling that shopping at Harrods is a dignified, particularly English experience...