Word: subverter
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...writes Ada Louise Huxtable, "we will continue to have the pious reproductions, the dead reconstructions, the vacuum-packed imitations and the false, nostalgic standards that, at best, evoke only the second-hand suggestion of the artistic glories of some other age, or at worst, throttle creativity and subvert values...
...position, tone or color. Through repetition, the force builds up. Then it peaks, like a laser emitting its stored energy in one flash. The serial changes (which may be no more than the slow rotation of a geometric "blip" of paint, happening a thousand times on one canvas) subvert, and at last explode, what would otherwise be a rigid order. "Everybody lives through states of disintegration but then finds something stronger that can't be disintegrated," she says. "The word 'paradox' has always had a kind of magic for me, and I think my pictures have...
...charge that the University serves the Military-Industrial Complex, there is convincing evidence both in Pusey's chicanery two years ago to subvert the Faculty and keep ROTC here, and in the University investment portfolio, which includes 33 of the top 100 defense contractors. What of the more difficult issue of the CFIA? The question is subtle, perhaps more subtle than the Weatherman raid of the CFIA implied, but infinitely more so than Pusey's pointless vindication of their "fine scholarship" implies. Of course they do "good" work. The Harvard Faculty is made up of intelligent men. But what...
...austere wages and tax policy. Secondly, these countries were to restrict commercial credit in such a way as to prevent speculation in the value of national currencies and in inventory accumulation (i.e.by corporations holding finished products in anticipation of inflationary price hikes). Such speculation would have tended to subvert national economies and make them less attractive as arenas for U.S. investment purchases...
...recent speech. Moynihan confessed in his letter to the paper that "after hasty consultation with Webster's Second Edition," he had tried-unsuccessfully-to swing a deal with a reporter to have the word rendered as "querulous." Then he concluded with a verbal flourish: "Thus does truth subvert semantics...