Word: rationale
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In these days of disenchantment with technology, it is not too difficult to find blind spots in Fuller's vision. Many of his ideas are as old as Archimedes. He is too rational for human nature. He avoids details, particularly politics, in favor of charting immense generalities. But Kenner...
I'm beginning to wonder whether Harvard--the students as well as faculty and administration--isn't part of the great American conspiracy to eliminate the present. We have always been a people who have looked to the future. That has sometimes been a noble tendency, but it can also...
Congressman Anderson stressed a recurring criticism that the Legislative Branch still acted too often as a collection of regional blocs. "It is the failure of the Congress to develop a rational approach to the budgetary process that has produced this crisis," he said. Rollings added: "The issue is whether the...
"The main issue we'll have to keep confronting is respect--that's the start--when confidence isn't by skin color," Monro says. "Relating somehow to the sound black college offers one orderly, rational way to begin to tear down the barriers we have built around ourselves." Without Miles...
The tremendous enthusiasm that Kahn's teaching-no less than his buildings-evokes in other architects is partly explained by the decay of the socalled International Style. That system of curtain-wall, frame-and-fill architecture came to America from the Bauhaus, and has dominated the nation's...