The book, wrought from old-fashioned shoe-leather reporting of a type that's disappearing faster than nonfranchised lunch counters on Main Street, isn't chiefly a tale of drugs and crime, of dysfunction and despair, but a recession-era tragedy scaled for an "Our Town," Thornton Wilder stage and seemingly based on a script by William S. Burroughs.
By then, it's clear "The Architect" isn't chiefly an explication of Rove's master plan.
Trained as a ballerina, she treats herself not chiefly as a metaphor to be mined for other metaphors but as a mechanical problem worth considering in its own right.
Although not chiefly aimed at an audience of historians of science and technology, this first section covers familiar terrain to readers in these disciplines, including citations of scholars such as Bruno Latour and Peter Galison that reflect the inroads that limited aspects of history of science and technology have made in the design professions.
Whenever colleagues sought to restrict the design possibilities of the program (to make a design disaster less likely), Gaskins would overrule them, quoting Thoreau: "I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad".
This, too, feels like a vestige of a different era, in which "culture" was not chiefly disseminated online, and young people were made to seek out creative communities in the flesh — to pack their bags for wilder places.
Despite complaints by critics, they say the communications are not chiefly vehicles for development interests to gain an advantage.
His idea was that oil and other hydrocarbons are being constantly generated by a microbial process and are not chiefly the result of decaying organic plant matter.
The state's leaders are resisting Trump policies not chiefly on partisan political grounds, but out of a conviction that California's policies are enhancing economic growth and other indicators of well-being.
