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...semi-archaic Scottish word, reaver, meaning plunderer, raider, marauder...
...generally understood, by those who bother to really investigate the causes of the problem, that much of our unemployment is the result of structural peculiarities in the economy caused by factor immobilities and adjustment problems in depressed or semi-depressed areas. It is not obvious at all what effect the passage of HR 9900 will have upon this type of unemployment...
Nervi's admiration for reinforced concrete as a structural technique derives from the material's two unique attributes: its initial semi-fluid state which allows it to assume any form, and its monolithic unity. These characteristics offer the contemporary architect the opportunity to create a richness of form perhaps unparalleled in architectural history...
...LICHTENSTEIN, 38, of Highland Park, N.J., started his fine-arts career painting semi-abstract versions of Remington's cowboys and Indians, and later began to conceal comic-strip cartoon characters inside abstract-expressionist paintings. "This led me to wonder what it would be like if I made a cartoon that looked like a cartoon." In addition to cartoons-on-canvas, he began painting household objects-trash cans, washing machines, light cords-in the same flat technique. "I try to use what is a cliche -a powerful cliché-and put it into organized form," he says. By presenting common...
Occasionally, and only occasionally, Mr. Brown does seem to come inadvertently close to some of the real sufferings of college students. An ex-girl friend of Wilson's writes him an awkward, semi-literate letter which in a very Holden Caulfieldish way does articulate a few of the longings of a coed, and some of the pathos. All too often, however, Mr. Brown's cries of pain come from the same gland that secretes cheap emotionalism, and all too often, again, these cries seemed aimed at someone not in the general audience...