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Richard Nixon established the Environmental Quality Council, a Cabinet-level advisory group designed to coordinate governmental action against environmental decay at all levels, create new proposals to control pollution, and foresee problems. Dr. Lee DuBridge, Nixon's science adviser and the executive secretary of the council, indicated that initial areas of specific concern may be air pollution caused by auto exhausts, and the dangers of pesticides such as DDT. Undoubtedly the council will also concern itself with establishing basic environmental policies. If the new group can fulfill its mandate and win congressional cooperation, progressive national legislation controlling pollution will...
That human institutions require periodic redesign (if only because of their tendency to decay) is not a minor fact about them. How curious it is, then, that in all of history no people has seriously attempted to take into account the aging of institutions and to provide for their continuous renewal. Why shouldn't we be the first...
When people, for whatever reason-oppression or laziness or complacency-take no part in their institutions, the institutions themselves decay at an accelerating rate. But it is not essential that everyone participate. As a matter of fact, if everyone suddenly did, the society would fly apart. Participation should simply be an available option...
...black-comic air appropriate to the author, whom Thomas Mann called "a religious humorist." Pompous officials deliver pronunciamentos even when there is no one left to listen. A girl tumbles into the surveyor's bed-and exhibits neither love nor lust. The sullen winter light reveals the endless decay of life...
...Knot is being given is a relic from the age of movie palaces. A second-story rotunda gapes above the lobby and fleurs-delis peel from the dome over the stage. There are new pastel stripes painted on the lobby floor, but the heart of the place is in decay. So the theatre, and so the Country...