Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is a key to the system's inner logic, it is in the environment's response to changes of mood. When Colin feels ready to fall in love, doors begin to close "with the sound of a kiss on a bare shoulder," and the air turns sultry. This environmental adaptability is all very well in the first half of the book, when Colin's main preoccupations are his love for Chloe, for Duke Ellington's music, and for the gastronomical delights concocted by his cook. But when Chloe falls fatally ill the atmosphere of light and luxury changes...
CRITICS HAVE accurately called Toni a neo-realist film eleven years ahead of its time. In a decade of pictures made in studios, it as shot entirely on location in the Midi, using local inhabitants as well as professional actors. I feels completely true to the environment and lives of...
On the other hand, Sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski needs whatever income he can collect from cattle breeding and tourists to pursue his passion: personally blasting a larger-than-Rushmore likeness of Chief Crazy Horse out of a South Dakota mountain. A fortune from manufacturing has liberated Oklahoma's John Zink...
Rainwater will be coming to Harvard from Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., where his studies have centered on urban social problems and race relations. Smith, currently at the University of Michigan, specializes in the study of population growth and the application of systems analysis to problems of the environment...
In the late 1940s, the Kremlin finally decided to proclaim as scientific truth the biological theories of Lysenko, who held that changes caused by environment could be inherited. Haldane had never fully agreed with Lysenko. But the matter had not troubled him unduly as long as the Russian's...