Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whether by hunting or herding or harvesting, a basic tribal function is subsistence in a harsh environment. As relatively powerless people, tribesmen believe in magic, usually hate outsiders and respect any kinsman who survives long enough to grow old.
Sir: If, as Architect Nathaniel Owings states, "architecture has always been the mirror image of a civilization," your cover article [Aug. 2] exemplifies the disturbing preoccupation with monumentality that exists in our society. Architecture as the molding of a physical environment can make no significant changes in how human beings...
In his ruling, Judge William Consodine of the Essex County Superior Court withheld the names of the couple and emphasized that normally, "mixed marriages are of no more concern to courts than interracial marriages." But in the Idaho town where they would live, he noted, "the two children and their...
Actually, the two issues that have appeared so far do not raise more than a moderate yelp. It has all been said before in McLuhan's earlier books. Once again, the McLuhan message is that the new "software" environment-radio, TV, phones, computers-has replaced the old "hardware" environment...
In The Lessons of History, the Durants do not set themselves up as oracles. On the contrary, they are disarmingly honest in admitting that all historians operate with partial knowledge, and that any belief that they can examine a past epoch with total perspective is largely an optical illusion. "Most...