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What most appalls ecologists is that technological man is so ignorant of his impact. Writing in Foreign Affairs, Britain's Lord Ritchie-Calder recently pointed out that neither the politicians nor the physicists who developed the first atomic bomb were fully aware of the consequences of radioactive fallout. The men who designed the automobile helped to annihilate distance as a barrier between men. Yet the car's very success is turning cities into parking lots and destroying greenery in favor of highways all over the world...
...PEOPLE'S WAR, BRITAIN 1939-1945 by Angus Calder. 656 pages. Pantheon...
...more of the hitherto underprivileged. The guns of August (1914) ushered in universal conscription to sustain the mass armies. The warplanes of 1939 ensured a mass distribution of war to civilians-sadly changed from keeping the home fires burning to putting them out. Such thoughts are provoked by Angus Calder's The People...
...ersatz eggs, smashed plumbing, maimed children and "austerity"-general misery that is orchestrated by enemy bombs and British bureaucrats. The 67 pictures that serve as illustrations to the book will be emotive to the older generation in Britain and should be informative to the young everywhere. Calder himself is young. He was born in 1942, not far removed from Britain's "finest hour," according to Churchill. The calculative eye of history, however, might identify it as Britain's most miserable hour since the Black Death some 600 years earlier...
...shapes that draws you into the process of discovering the possibilities left to painting and sculpture. Before the entrance of this show at the bottom of the long stone staircase in the museum, your eye is pulled through space above to a white mobile. The presence of this Calder bird prepares the senses for their audience with the reigning court of contemporary...