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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Words To Profit By | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Brooke M. Lampley, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: RICHARD MEIER A MODERN ARCHITECT | 11/20/1998 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Stuart Buck, | Title: Beyond a Heroine's Reputation | 10/20/1998 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Punching the culture club | 10/15/1998 | See Source »

...like all superheroes, Rosen, too, was make-believe. In 1983 he was forced to surrender his medical license. Rosen faced 67 violations of the Pennsylvania Medical Practices Act that ranged from curing schizophrenics who had never had schizophrenia to sequestering patients in dungeons and cells, extending his definition of "drastic" to a new level of inhumane...

Author: By Joanne Sitarski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Madness' Charts Psychotherapy's Wayward Drift | 10/9/1998 | See Source »

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