Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...studies at Dakota Wesleyan, then went off to study for the Methodist ministry. The limitations of the clerical life soon disillusioned him, and he switched to graduate work in American history at Northwestern University, taking a master's and a Ph.D. The subject of his dissertation was the Colorado coal strikes of 1913-14, which culminated in the Ludlow massacre of miners and their families...
...preserve our traditional values of justice, peace, and humanity against the advocates of conformity and the supremacy of force. For us, and for those who share in other aspects of this same struggle, let Kent be the memorial of our resistance. David E. Engdahl Associate Professor University of Colorado School...
...make it difficult to get a clear look at him, but McPhee had the happy notion of confronting Brower with three of his ideological enemies on threatened terrain-Glacier Peak Wilderness in the state of Washington, Georgia's Cumberland Island and finally, on a raft trip down the Colorado River. In the process Brower and his antagonists are revealed as subtly and convincingly as they would be in a good novel. The book settles nothing, but it shows clearly where some of the fault lines lie in the environmental impasse...
...FOUR CORNERS. "[Former Secretary] Stewart Udall decided on coal power at Four Corners [the complex of generating plants where the states of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah meet], and now it's my problem: coal creates pollution. We're incorporating environmental stipulations that were never thought of when Four Corners was conceived...
Among American experiments included in Schools Where Children Learn are the Colorado classroom work of Frances Hawkins, Herbert Kohl's sixth grade class in Harlem, the work of the Teachers and Writers Collaborative and the Street Academies in New York, two schools in Roxbury, and various "career ladder" programs for involving community people, expecially the poor, in social service positions. None of this work has been entirely successful, yet what success has been demonstrated--and the good work is impressive--has resulted largely from the simple desires of parents and teachers to improve the education of children...