Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...obscuring the neon signs with trees or that the local planning board would prevail upon gas station owners to imitate the architecture of the casinos in the interest of architectural unity, Venturi and group hurried to sing its praises. The results of the study as well as an essay on the symbolism of sprawl and another on the work of Venturi and Rauch as practicing architects make up Venturi's latest book. Learning from Las Vegas...
...News Special. "The Vandals" is a film essay by Harry Reasoner that looks at the American way of defiling things, from subway graffiti to a candid camera sequence of vandals demolishing an abandoned car, CH. 6, 8:30 p.m. Color...
...book surveys the American political landscape and finds it the same old racist swamp. Bond is at his best when condemning the inconsistency of the American conscience. In the essay on "The Kent State Massacre" Bond rages eloquently at the illogic which focused national attention on the Ohio killings while the blacks who perished at Jackson State a scant ten days later, had their epitaphs scribed in sand. Bond also resurrects the often-forgotten point that school busing is "an old practice in virtually each of the fifty states." On ecology: "Picking up beer cans from the highway is touted...
...Your work-ethic Essay suggests that all work should be "soul enriching" whatever that means...
That veritable essay sprouts from a review of The King of Marvin Gardens which supposedly marked a heightening in Sarris's social consciousness (or so one of Sarris's pupils thought). Maybe it has. The purpose of the political prelude actually is to color the lackluster points of this piece with a tinge of pre-election blues...