Word: sections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...door-to-door salesmen give hard sell to homeowner. Homeowner objects, nonchalantly removes one salesman's watch, admires it, and then smashes it on doorstep. Salesman mulls, then casually breaks off section of door frame. Homeowner reflects, then rips off salesman's shirt. Other salesman blinks, frowns, and throws brick through window. Homeowner throws brick through windshield of salesmen's car. Salesmen attack homeowner's piano with axes, swat vases with spade handles. Homeowner tears off car headlights, doors, gas tank and sets auto ablaze. Salesmen demolish house, dig up lawn, hack down trees and shrubbery...
Kate Simon has already written excellent books on New York and Mexico, and Paris is even better. The chapters on hotels, restaurants, neighborhoods, entertainment and landmarks are complete and reliable. The section on shopping moves up and down the streets, number by number. Even better than these conscientious compilations are brief essays on Parisian institutions and habits, sights and sounds. On the Paris radio: "You might hear a physics lecture surrounded by splinters of electronic music, or a description of the circumcision rites of remote African tribes described by a dry, rustling voice like the crumbling of yellowed paper...
Grainger said that dogs were "very effective" for flushing burglers out of large buildings and would most likely be used to patrol the warehouses in the Kendall Square section of East Cambridge...
...Confession's theme is reconciliation. It can be summarized this way: "In Jesus Christ God was reconciling the world to himself...Therefore the church calls men to be reconciled to God and to one another." An amplification of this statement, from a section of the Confession titled "The New Life," describes what the church believes its members ought to be doing as agents of reconciliation: "The members of the church are emissaries of peace and seek the good of man in cooperation with powers and authorities in politics, culture, and economics. But they have to fight against pretensions and injustices...
Form, order, institutions, and polity are treated in a section on "Forms and Order." The controlling concept is flexibility of institutional form for the sake of mission in the world. "The institutions of the people of God change and vary as their mission requires in different times and places...