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This may be a drastic view of the future--after all, we still have a United States government. Still, Soros and philanthropists like him are not just modern-day Good Samaritans, they are symbols of how out-of-control the global economy has become...
...books. William H. Whyte's The Organization Man (1956) and Vance Packard's The Status Seekers (1959) skewered conformity within the corporation. Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (1962) condemned corporate polluters and gave birth to the environmental movement. Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed (1965) led to drastic, overdue and life-saving changes in auto-safety standards. The underside of American business was also revealed in such hand-to-mouth, left-leaning publications as I.F. Stone's Weekly and Dorothy Day's Catholic Worker. Why these crusaders, and the subjects they exposed, did not command more attention...
Richard Meier's design is, admittedly, a drastic departure from that of the traditional Gothic Cathedral which had previously served a similar unifying purpose, but his building acknowledges this issue by referring to the cathedral in his own work. The Cathedral is omnipresent throughout the Stadthaus because it can be seen at all times through the skylights...
Sanger also wrote, "The most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective. Possibly drastic and Spartan methods may be forced upon American society if it continues complacently to encourage the chance and chaotic breeding that has resulted from our stupid, cruel sentimentalism...
...join the new globally enlightened class on campus, you may have to lose your meat-eating ways. You may even have to abandon your North Face equipment and start subscribing to the J. Peterman catalog. Drastic changes can be quite unnerving, but considering how fixed our lives become once we've begun our journey to college graduation, an image makeover is probably easier than changing concentrations...