Word: strives
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sekler criticized the "arbitrariness" of much University architecture. "Why does this building look the way it does except that maybe it's pretty?" Ackerman tied this to the tendency of modern architects to "strive for the creation of the isolated...
...neither American nor Panamanian, and while I do not condone killing, burning or looting under any circumstances, my sympathies in this affair are with the Panamanians and with the U.S. residents in Panama who strive to disassociate themselves from U.S. and Canal Zone policy...
Above all, the Reds strive to set up a rudimentary regime that will appear to rival the Saigon government. Boldly, the Front's yellow-starred flag now flies over dozens of villages. The guerrillas levy taxes, circulate their own currency, even operate a primitive postal system, complete with censors and stamps printed in Hanoi. For weeks, Radio Liberation has been triumphantly boasting that the organization held its "second national congress" early in January in a secret "liberated area." The 150 delegates were said to have demonstrated "a mood of patriotism as mighty as the Mekong River...
Nasser's Kiss. Nasser's reaction was equally militant. "For the sake of Palestine," he told the Arab world, "we are ready to meet with those with whom we quarrel, and to sit with those against whom we strive!" Observers of the summit could scarcely believe their eyes. Arab leaders who have been actively trying to cut each other's throats were suddenly enveloped in each other's arms. Saudi Arabia's King Saud, who once spent $5,300,000 trying to procure Nasser's assassination, was embraced and kissed...
seek out the reasons for which individuals and groups did what they did, and in each case the method of the search is itself part of the process of understanding. Both strive for a precise, detailed reconstruction of the circumstances surrounding an action: both operate on the assumption that the patience of the investigator will bring its appropriate reward...both distrust the ready explanation that springs first to mind. The connection between the two seems obvious, but it has only recently been explicitly recognized...