Word: fresh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opening of another school year approaches, the U.S. faces fresh agonies over an old and divisive issue: desegregation of the public schools. Racial integration of the nation's classrooms remains the law of the land, but public support for large-scale busing of schoolchildren to achieve that goal, never very broad to begin with, now seems to be eroding rapidly. The Ford Administration has made no secret of its own distaste for busing. At the same time, the courts have helped create confusion by making contradictory rulings in two large cities that are struggling to satisfy desegregation orders...
...abductors to provide new instructions that were "clear, specific and practical" and "to renew their contacts by calling us at the number they originally indicated." The family had complied with all instructions, the statement said, but "the abductors so far have failed to follow through." They asked for fresh proof that Sam was still alive...
...constitutional grounds: family time violates the First Amendment. The second involves an antitrust action that the networks' agreement to ban violent shows from early prime time amounts to collusion. In the fuss, the original issue of violence on TV has been lost. Another loser may well be the fresh, funny irreverence of the sitcoms that for only a brief span of time has lit the wasteland...
Aalto is utterly unconcerned with architectural movements or polemics. He deflects theoretical discussions with the imperious reply: "I build." For him, every structure poses its own questions of balance between man, machines and nature. Every answer is therefore fresh, poetic, charged with the identity of its architect. Mies van der Rohe had this quality; so did Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright. Now Aalto, whom Wright called "a genius" 40 years ago, stands alone...
...would use the building but also might feel about it. The janitor, he decided, should have his own closet, not just an impersonal clothes hook. When it came to the hospital rooms, Aalto put himself in the place of the patients. The result: designs for windows that would admit fresh air but not drafts, wash basins that would not splash, and chairs of resilient wood so that convalescents would not touch cold steel frames...