Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent "white roots" phenomenon is a reversal of U.S. tradition. In other periods, immigration was the sincerest form of flattery. Many of the populations that came to the U.S. were in flight from the past. To them, the concept of a new world was no metaphor: for the first time they were free of regal decree and military repression, released from the specters of famine and caste. In fact, the importance of lineage had been eroding since the Middle Ages. Rising middle classes demanded recognition for performance, not tradition. The Industrial Revolution identified the worker, like his machinery, with...
Daring Calligraphy. Mine's work was not all indictment. It had its celebratory side as well, and this came to the fore in the 1920s. It took the form of a series of dramatically affirmative "work portraits," designed, as Hine un abashedly put it, for "social uplift," such as Powerhouse Mechanic, 1925. He hit the peak of this imagery in 1930, when he began to document that marvel of audacity and skill, the construction of the Empire State Building. As Trachtenberg remarks, Hine's Empire State series, with its daring calligraphy of girders and Icarian figures treading...
...sounded, at first, almost too good to be true: a benefactor gives $40 million to America's greatest museum, no strings visible, to "record man's total accomplishment" in culture, "probably in the form of video cassette or disc." Such was the pharaonic enterprise entailed in the Fine Arts Center of the Annenberg School of Communications, to be housed inside New York's Metropolitan Museum in a new wing built, equipped and funded for ten years by ex-President Nixon's ambassador to Britain, Publisher (TV Guide, Seventeen) Walter H. Annenberg. It would...
...earlier in the year. The Finance Committee voted to make those provisions apply only to income earned in 1977 and later years. "Retroactivity is against the spirit of the American Constitution," boomed New York Democrat Daniel P. Moynihan, who helped lead the move. People who are now filling out Form 1040 probably would be well advised not to claim the sick-pay exclusion: it is not at all certain that the Moynihan proposal will become law. Should it do so, taxpayers who have already sent in 1976 returns and paid extra tax on sick pay or income earned overseas would...
...physician pushes several hollow steel needles horizontally into the breast through the tumorous area and out the other side (see diagram). Thin plastic tubes are then threaded through the needles (which are subsequently removed) and anchored in place by small plastic buttons at either end. The iridium-in the form of tiny "seeds" embedded in a thin, stiff nylon ribbon -is inserted into the tubes. The outer layer of the seed is a steel sheathing; it blocks dangerous ionizing beta rays (electrons), but allows the escape of the high-energy gamma rays that destroy the tumor...