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...creator of El Museo del Barrio in New York City—the first Latino art museum in the United States—Ortiz is known for his involvement in the destructionist movement, which attempted to address what it saw as the social detachment of the post-War avant-garde...

Author: By Francis E. Cambronero, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Overlooked Artist Discussed at Sackler | 4/9/2010 | See Source »

...misunderstanding. He was trying to demonstrate once & for all that true negotiations with the Russians were not possible, and that fake negotiations, based on the myth of "the unanimity of the great powers," would prove a fatal trap for U.S. policy. Since Molotov was tougher and more plainly destructionist than he had to be, the Russian helped Marshall make his point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROPAGANDA: Adjournment | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

...perhaps a bit slow in making up his mind, which is not a bad fault. It makes the ordinary citizen rather tired to find people gunning for Coolidge when "Canivora" like big Bill Thompson are running at large. One a builder and a conservator, the other an obstructionist and destructionist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: In Necaragua | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

This sane and proper view is now confirmed by countries in Europe. Constructionists in general defeated obstructionists and destructionists. The present time is not one for wild and hare-brained schemes of social milleniums. The job of the world is to get back on its feet after being bled white by a war costing millions of lives and hundred of billions of dollars. In the words of Premier Clemenceau, "the salvation of the world lies in work and work alone." The destructionist and obstructionist Red can cool his head and his head in the outer office for a while...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE EUROPEAN ELECTIONS. | 11/19/1919 | See Source »

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