Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Intelligentsia and white-collar employees generally were satisfied with their pay, liked their work (82 percent of the intelligentsia, 74 percent of the employees), and found their working environment pleasant. But they resented others being advanced beyond them on political grounds.
This flea circus, a hilarious yarn, sets the tone for this whole collection of 25 short stories by V. S. (for Victor Sawdon) Pritchett. At 55, Pritchett is perhaps the best literary critic now writing in English. He is also a subtle interpreter of national character and environment (The Spanish...
Eskimos Too. The University of Oregon's Dr. Frederick P. Haugen reports that dogs raised from puppyhood in a solitary, restricted environment, so that they cannot hurt themselves or be hurt, do not act as though they feel pain when tested in early maturity. Even Sherrington's "imperative...
Since that time he has lived in Argentina and produced some nine plays, all of which exhibit the optimism, poetry, and drama that have endowed his life with a richness beyond what his Spanish environment could warrant. From Casona's early ventures in poetry we see in all his later...
From his father Eero learned two lessons he never forgot. One: "Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context-a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, environment in a city plan." The second, Eero learned one day when...