Word: constructing
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Arbitrary Construct...
Thus to my Hegelian sensibility, the pendulum theory appears an arbitrary construct. Western culture incorporates not only Biblical and Hellenic elements, but also Gothic. It takes up parts of these traditions and discards others. The classical Renaissance did not simply resurrect the Ancients in their old form. Gibbon dressed his Romans and his Christians as neo-classicists, and while Hellenism dominated the synthesis, it did not emerge pure. Consequently, it hardly seems likely that the impending transformation will be accomplished with a religion designed for the Hellenic Babel...
...latest book, Existence and the Christ (University of Chicago; $4.50), published last week as Volume II of his massive work-in-progress, a three-volume Systematic Theology. Apart from his lighter writing and lecturing on everything from modern art to depth psychology, Harvard's Tillich is attempting to construct a modern Protestant "system"-fitting all aspects of the Christian faith together in a single intellectual whole. To this titanic task German-born Paul Tillich brought a Teutonic ponderosity in Volume I, published six years ago. It was constructed on a plan called "correlation" (existential question paired with theological answer...
...commission was the dream of a lifetime. A constructivist (along with his brother, Antoine Pevsner) since the movement's pioneer days in Russia, Gabo still bases his work on the esthetics of mathematics, modern material, and machine motifs. His present work, which took more than a year to construct in steel and aluminum bronze, is as abstract as he has ever done. "I'm not a naturalist," he explains, "who works from a face, a landscape or an event. I have only my imagination. I have tried to express the indomitable spirit of the people of Rotterdam...
...Maxim. Morrison's medicine has attracted industry to New Orleans, prompted private capital to construct 25 major buildings in eleven years, raised property values in once dilapidated areas from 95? a square foot to $25. But it has done something even more important. Morrison next year is an odds-on favorite to win a fourth term, is being talked about as a potential governor of Louisiana or U.S. Senator. His success demonstrates a political maxim that last-hurrahing wardheelers across the U.S. are rapidly learning: a hard-nosed, hard-pushed program of municipal reconstruction can do more than patronage...