Word: fabric
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long as land is judged by the profit it can provide a developer, ugly high-rises will continue to puncture the horizon, woods will be considered valuable logging areas, the hillsides will turn into strip mines. Yet the economic fabric in America is constructed so as to encourage shoddy ravaging of the human and natural resources for the profit which they might yield. Man and nature both have a higher potential than to be oppressed for quick dollars. The ecology campaign must strike right at the heart of the industrialized insensitive society, where it destroys natural beauty for a capitalist...
Ridiculously Real. Fabric added a new depth of characterization to his art, making the figures seem more real and all the more ridiculous. There followed works in linen and shiny vinyl, a material that marvelously captured the slick airs and plastic emptiness of city sophistication. The aluminum sculptures reflect a more tender view of human nature. Several celebrate the joys of parenthood. Women, too, appear in a more sensuous and loving light...
PRAGMATISM AND LAW (1952): In the last few decades, we have incorporated a huge amount of social justice into our legal fabric. But we have no coherent-or generally received-philosophy of government and law to match our actual performance. Here is a classic example of social facts outrunning social theory. This is a strong point for the pragmatist; he may say, with pride, the less theory, the better the practice. But it may also be said that pragmatism has come to the end of its rope...
...smells. The pavilion area, where 72 nations are exhibiting, features what observers call "the battle of the rooftops." Among the combatants, naturally, is the Soviet Union, with a bold red and white sickle-shaped structure that soars 339 ft., and the U.S., with a ground-hugging elliptical Fiberglas Beta-fabric roof that is inflated with air and anchored with cables to concrete embankments...
...only 200 to 300 have any real stake. Among them are Betz Laboratories, Re-search-Cottrell, American Air Filter, Sy-bron and Zurn Industries. Most anti-pollution equipment is neither new nor exotic. In air pollution, it consists largely of particle collectors for smoke stacks, fabric filters and electrostatic precipitators. Only 10% of the money spent on water and waste treatment goes into hardware; the rest is accounted for by labor, engineering and materials...