Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EASY RIDER is born of the natural union of American International motorcycle epics and all those westerns whose aging heroes have outlived their era. The two protagonists are as painfully inarticulate as any western idol; their sluggishness of mind is of course intended to be read as sensitivity and moral...
The topic of Finch's formal talk, the problem of preserving the world's natural environment from the destructive effects of industry, technology, and population growth, aroused little controversy. Buthe was challenged on a number of issues in a question and answer period after the speech.
Sir: I noted with complete revulsion Transamerica Corp.'s proposed addition to the San Francisco skyline. While "different" and "interesting," the building itself must be considered an architectural disaster in spite of itself. Its impact on the total environment in which it finds itself would be great, to say...
MODERN American speech, while not always clear or correct or turned with much style, is supposed to be uncommonly frank. Witness the current explosion of four-letter words and the explicit discussion of sexual topics. In fact, gobbledygook and nice-Nellyism still extend as far as the ear can hear...
Americans have long paid little heed to their frontier of the north, idealizing instead the memory of a Western frontier that is forever gone. Now Alaska increasingly presents what Historian Turner called the "stubborn American environment" with its "imperious summons to accept its conditions." The 49th state's environment...