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Matching Capability. Though McHarg is only one of several such pioneers, he is now the nation's most visible apostle of using ecology for planning-and turning a profit in the broadest sense. As an example, his book describes how his firm planned a scenic highway on New York City's increasingly squandered Staten Island. To find the best route, he mapped every physical and social feature in the area, in-eluding slopes, soil foundations, forests, scenic and residential values...
...With his Scottish burr, fierce beard and piercing eyes, McHarg is a cross between Jeremiah and a kind of male Rachel Carson. He is not only a symbol of rising anger at environmental abuses, but a successful practitioner of the hard art of stopping those abuses. In his new book, Design with Nature, which Lewis Mumford calls "a vision of organic exuberance and human delight," McHarg clearly shows that the main obstacle to saving the U.S. landscape is ignorance...
McHarg's new book is partly a burst of rage at the lavalike flow of U.S. cities into the countryside, where city dwellers yearning for nature destroy it in the process. McHarg blames the lack of planning on the arrogance of both capitalism and Christianity, cries that man is poisoning the very biosphere that sustains him and calls for a new ecological religion based on living in harmony with nature rather than on conquering...
Thus begins the autobiography of Christine Keeler, whom some may remember as the call girl in the scandal that forced John Profumo to resign as Britain's Minister of War in 1963. She has yet to find a book publisher, but her story is now unfolding in eight installments in the News of the World, a Sunday broadsheet that has built a circulation of 6,500,000 by emphasizing the news of the bedroom. Britons who do not like News of the World ignore it -or pretend to. But its regurgitation of the Profumo affair is provoking outraged cries...
Indian history is notoriously full of broken covenants, callous horse soldiers and greedy land-grabbers-all encouraged from Washington. Though Vine Deloria dwells on such things with savage wit in this remarkable book, he is more bitterly concerned with the recent past and the havoc worked among the long-suffering tribes in the past 20 years by less officially baneful agencies-compassionate missionaries, humane anthropologists and liberal bureaucrats. Their doings, says Deloria, justifiably provoked a Sioux leader to tell a congressional hearing that what the Indians really want is "a leave-us-alone...