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Cobb sees architecture as a moral endeavor. He is frustrated by the flippant attitude inherent in much post-modern architecture. In reaction to the strict terms of the modern style, many architects now indulge in haphazard eclectisism. He welcomes the return of the figurative in architecture, the use of forms inbued with cultural meaning and associations. He approves, to a certain degree, of the wit and irony of post-modern designs. He worries, however, that an excess of such levity will weaken the impact of the figurative, resulting in "an unconscious trivialization of meaning." He senses a dangerous carelessness...
...would have little luck in collecting the debt. "They told me," says Edwards, "the Russians had immunity." Undeterred, Edwards considered trying to impound the ice skates of the visiting Soviet hockey team. In 1973 he persuaded a local court to order the seizure of a Soviet airliner, but that endeavor fizzled under pressure from a number of less determined Canadian government agencies...
...Prize committee chose Pérez Esquivel from a record list of 71 nominees. Although virtually unknown outside human rights circles, he edged out such candidates as President Jimmy Carter (for his Camp David efforts), British Foreign Minister Lord Carrington and Zimbabwe Prime Minister Robert Mugabe (for their successful endeavor to end the war in Rhodesia), Swedish Disarmament Activist Alva Myrdal and Pope John Paul II. Pérez Esquivel, said 1976 Peace Laureate Betty Williams of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement, is "the greatest living radical pacifist leader." Noted the Nobel committee: "He is among those Argentines who have...
...Democrat Robert Garcia of The Bronx. Under their bill, businesses putting down roots in, say, a square-mile section of Chicago's South Side, would receive a variety of reductions in capital gains and corporate income taxes. Local governments would also be obliged to contribute to the endeavor by reducing property taxes inside the zone by 5% annually for four years. In return, the firms would have to hire at least 50% of their company's work force from the local population. Part of the original plan was that the industrial zone would be dispensed from many heavy...
...worldwide obsession. Scholars say that record keeping took hold mainly because of the scientific revolution's tendency to quantify and rank everything. The preoccupation with records, and the breaking thereof, pervaded sports early in this century and spread, much too quickly, to virtually every other field of endeavor. A North Carolina youth, Lang Martin, holds the record for balancing golf balls vertically: he stacked up six of them. A Northeast Louisiana University student, Arden Chapman, caught in his mouth a grape thrown the longest distance-259ft. It is easy to understand the performer's urge...