Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"Yet, there is always the possibility of new trade or business development," Whittlesey continued. "But, since the environment is unfavorable, it would take a lot of capital to build up an economic empire.
That a bad environment works the other way was proved in a study of 988 orphan age children, whose life was educationally and socially impoverished. Their I. Q.s fell. Crowning study was one conducted in an orphanage where some children were given nursery-school training several hours a day. The...
The unblinking realism of Farrell's pictures of lower-class life made critics overlook their monotony, their repetitions, and the fact that all the characters seemed to divide their time between languid day dreaming and fierce battling with other dreamers. When he finished his Studs Lonigan trilogy three years...
Last week the second volume dealing with the O'Neills did both. The best of James Farrell's books to date, No Star Is Lost is also his mellowest and most imaginative, has little of the rancor (so strong that it sometimes seemed Author Farrell hated all his...
The framework of his philosophy is simple: Man, he says, is a product of his environment, and environment is "95% a shelter problem." Nine Chains to the Moon begins with a description of a modern city dweller, the unfortunate Mr. Murphy, jostled in the subway, unnerved by noise, threatened with...