Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...position, Krauss said he plans to continue developing an "adequate vocabulary" for designers, to promote the use of formalism to express human values and to create a more flexible code for designers...
Krauss said he is trying to express human values in his own design work. His plan for a French town emphasizes the individual unit rather than large scale development...
Some glimmer of literary understanding must have penetrated the fog of war in Hackett's brain, enough anyway for him to understand the need to place some human beings among the Phantoms and stereotyped initative-lacking Soviet junior officers in his narrative. Every so often he clumsily inserts a phony "personal recollection," most embarrassingly in a letter home from an American sailor...
Steinfels talks too much about personal reasons for his subjects' change of political hue. Most neoconservatives, he says, have fully arrived in America after a climb from deprivation. Quite a few are Jewish, and Steinfels views the Holocaust as shattering to any faith in human nature. He also notes the long Jewish struggle against the quota system to explain neoconservative impatience with extreme forms of affirmative action...
...personal sacrifice and drama. In A Private Battle, his last book, Ryan re-creates another kind of war: a four-year fight against cancer. Composed of tapes recorded throughout his illness, along with entries by his wife and co-editor Kathryn, Battle is as much a testimonial to the human spirit as any of his other works...