Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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But most depressing of all is the reaction, or lack of it, of Majority America to the events of this decade. The technocracy has ravaged the natural environment, created an unspeakable thermonuclear arsenal, etc., and hasn't eliminated a single big problem-not even poverty, which it could eliminate easily...
...creation of a new body of law is the aim of the New York-based Environmental Defense Fund, organized in 1967 by Mrs. Yannacone's lawyer husband, Victor. Suing on behalf of all Americans, E.D.F. brings in expert witnesses, mainly scientists, to testify about environmental dangers, such as hard pesticides like DDT. The cases are always based on the idea that the public has the right to a healthy environment...
Intolerable Conditions. Such public airing of environmental problems has produced some important results. In New York, the legislature has adopted a proposed state constitutional amendment that guarantees every resident the right to a clean environment. Even more significant, the U.S. Senate recently passed bills introduced by Senators Henry Jackson and Edmund Muskie (now being reworded in House-Senate conferences) that would oblige all federal agencies to protect the environment and make that protection a new constitutional right...
Meanwhile, court cases are carving new legal ground. Says Vermont Lawyer (and ex-Governor) Philip Hoff: "Business has learned that it can't go ahead, carte blanche, because it can be delayed for years by a lawyer committed to saving the environment." Adds E.D.F.'s Victor Yannacone: "Every...
For the young who have already bolted the establishment, the Metropolitan's show may represent another irrelevant exercise in self-aggrandizement for what goes in the marketplace. Peter Selz, director of Berkeley's University Art Museum, observes: "Today's young artists reject pure color paintings as establishment...