Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ludicrous for anyone to suggest that Skylab is an "example of technology outracing man's means of control." Rather, it is an example of what happens when unimaginative penny pinchers refuse to permit full application of existing technology. Politicians should stay out of complex design decisions. Either provide funding to do a project properly, or don't fund...
...what you think, but it does a lot you never imagined"). The bachelor Republican, who was graduated from Michigan State University and attended Harvard Divinity School, is known in his southern Michigan district for opposing excessive regulation of the auto industry. Last year he helped defeat Carter's complex hospital cost-containment bill because he felt it was "a cure worse than the disease." Stockman's main goal is to reduce the role of the Government in society and to chip away at "the social pork barrel?the tremendous pressure of parochial, narrowly defined interests...
...Leon Botstein, 32, is one of the nation's most forceful advocates of an often neglected cause: the small liberal arts college. Although he attended the University of Chicago and Harvard, Botstein believes that in an increasingly complex world the traditional college can provide a vital educational function quite different from that of large, research-oriented universities. He has buttressed his argument with an impressive performance. In 1970, at the age of 23, he became one of the youngest college presidents in American history when he took over and briefly revived New Hampshire's failing and nonaccredited Franconia College...
...nearly twelve years of wrangling, the family gave up and looked elsewhere. Today, as it nears its official opening in October, the John F. Kennedy Library rises grandly from the edge of the Columbia Point Peninsula in Dorchester, six miles from Cambridge. Designed by I.M. Pei and Partners, the complex includes two theaters, a museum, an eight-story archive, and-to take advantage of the site's sweeping view of Boston harbor-a glass pavilion. "The location," says Library Director Daniel Fenn, "is a smash." Cambridge, we hardly know...
...neopagan movement has its roots in the counterculture. Though many neopaganists live otherwise ordinary lives as, say, bank tellers or bartenders, others gather in communes. Psychologists say that neopaganism functions as a form of "folk therapy," a sort of ritualized search for self-worth in an increasingly complex society...