Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The embryonic Adolfs are brought to term in the wombs of compliant Indian women, then sent to Rio and put on the world adoption market. Mengele schemes to place them with families in Europe and North America that most closely resemble the parental environment of the original Hitler. The principal...
The funds provided for the Houses are fairly limited, and some masters quite admirably add money from their own pockets to keep the House afloat financially and expand its activities. But the master's role in forming the House environment should not be a purely paternalistic one. In the murky...
Noting that "any new technology brings with it a certain degree of risk," Coleman concluded that the Concorde's prospective benefits were worth the chance. An outright ban, he said, would be a blow to Britain and France, two allies that had sunk $2.8 billion into the Concorde. Further...
Familiar Breed. Travis, the taxi driver, is such a creature, and Robert deNiro has him down pat in a stunning, veracious performance. Director Scorsese has his environment down pat too. The garage that Travis works out of, the cafeteria where he takes his breaks, the porno theaters he haunts, the...
By the turn of the century, sociologists and political philosophers, students of urbanization and the power of the press were brooding about the implications of mediated experience. The anonymous metropolis and the explosion of information threatened to swamp primary social contacts. Between man and his environment, Walter Lippmann noted in...