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...Nicodemus-named for a legendary black on the second slave ship from Africa, who later bought his freedom-HABS is less concerned with the buildings than with the homesteaders who built them. Increasingly devoid of people and a reason for being, Nicodemus, the only remaining black settlement in Kansas, is almost literally drying up and blowing away in the dusty prairie winds. Before it does, the HABS team is drawing a reconstructed plan of the town during its heyday and chronicling its social and cultural history. Says Team Member Ruth Pharr, 24, a British archaeologist studying at Kansas State: "This...
...taunt the police on Saturday nights; they blast past the stations and dare police to chase them through the maze of traffic. Juvenile delinquency, historically always low, has increased 80% since 1972. A White Paper issued by the Prime Minister's office concluded of today's youth: "They are devoid of perseverance, dependent upon others and self-centered...
...unknown, in this case an unknown monk. Nor does the comparison end there: like its musical counterpart which combines serious composition with more popular and humorous melodies, this book presents accurate history, philosophy, and semiotics in the form of a good old mystery novel and one not entirely devoid of humor at that...
This year the duel returns to Connecticut. On November 19 mid-Cambridge will become a ghost town for a day. It will be like a neutron bomb blast: the Yard and the Houses will remain standing, but temporarily devoid of human life. Friday lectures will be poorly attended, as everyone sweeps down to New Haven and a Saturday morning appointment with the Yale Bowl...
...only because of the 30° F weather) when Peter Blake, chairman of the department of architecture and planning at Catholic University of America, showed slides of the future as envisioned in the past. The "ideal cities" of Leonardo da Vinci or Etienne-Louis Boullée, although devoid of people, were at least images of fantastic beauty. The modern future, as imagined by Antonio Sant Elia in 1914, Ludwig Hilberseimer in 1928 and Le Corbusier in 1934, has a nightmarish, totalitarian quality, akin to George Orwell's 1984 foreboding of a boot in the face. It seems incredible...