Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter called the U.S. "the most wasteful nation on earth," adding: "We waste more energy than we import." Claiming that "we can't substantially increase our domestic production," Carter said the U.S. will become perilously dependent on increasingly costly imported oil. "We could endanger our freedom as a sovereign nation...
Why did Worthy's diapatch go unnoticed? "There was irrationality on a mass scale at the time, with the government and press working overtime to foster a state of hysteria over Cuab's revolution," Worthy says. He adds that nobody is going to listen to practical, common sense reporting in...
Worthy was born in Boston in the 1920s, the son of a doctor. During Worthy's formative years, his parents actively participated in the NAACP's struggle against segregation. A product of an intellectual family environment. Worthy was admitted to Boston Latin ("very rigid discipline but I learned a great...
The Alpha Gallery at 121 Newbury is showing another commentary on contemporary society. The paintings of Scott Prior, to stay until May 3, are, for the most part, bitter condemnations of man's treatment of his environment. He paints landscapes marred by factory smokestacks or highways and homes cheapened by...
As the play opens, the Athenian courtiers strut about the stage like so many automatons, suggestive of "a timeless urban environment," as the embarassingly pretentious program notes put it. Hermia and her lover Lysander wish to be married, against the will of Egeus, her father, who wants Hermia to marry...