Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ohio National Guardsmen expressed official "regret" that four students at Kent State University had been needlessly killed and nine others wounded by the Guardsmen on that day. With the statement and agreement by the state to pay the victims or their parents $675,000, a retrial of the civil suit brought by the families was halted in Cleveland and the suit was dismissed...
...time to members of Congress declaring that the project was "only marginally justified." Added Resor: "The Tennessee-Tombigbee project continues to lack that margin of economic safety which typically marks federal investments in water resource development." But Al Fitt, who served as special assistant to Resor for civil functions (including Corps of Engineers' projects), submitted an affidavit to the court stating that his boss's memo was intended to approve the actual widening...
...best contemporary photographers generally have less respect for their subjects than for the photographs that arise from them. Few have been able to produce work of the purity and absoluteness one sees in much of the innocent, incunabular sort of photography of the mid-19th century, in the Civil War photographs of Matthew Brady and his colleagues, or in Eugene Atget's pictures of Paris streets at the turn of the century. Meyerowitz's work, which ranked on the "windows" side of the New York show, has a kind of emphatic resplendence that the best early photographers, soberly concerned with...
...happened to the middle-and upper-class city dwellers since the Communist takeover? Repeated interrogation produced no clear answer to the question of 'auto-genocide,' the term used by some critics for an alleged methodical execution of much of the entire class of former professionals, tradesmen, civil servants and soldiers. There were indications in both directions. The Cambodian revolution evidently has forced [those city dwellers] to conform to an austere standard of hard manual labor: no money, no mail system, no telephone service, no books, almost no individual property, no advanced education, little or no religion, and none...
...Friedlaender, 40, professor of economics and civil engineering at M.I.T., made her mark with a widely influential study of the costs and benefits of the interstate highway system. As head of the women's caucus of the American Economic Association, Friedlaender has been a leader in the drive to get more women into graduate school...