Word: inge
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Among the good news is the improvement in the nation's housing. From 1940 to 1970, the number of families liv ing in housing officially classified as sub standard dropped dramatically, from 48.6% to 7.4%. During the same peri od, the number of persons aged 25 to 29 who were college-educated rose from...
General Lee's supporters are mak ing a drive in this session of Congress to restore his lost citizenship. Last week the senate in Virginia, where Lee was born and died, passed a resolution call ing upon Congress to correct the long standing error. It seemed a modest enough request a century after the War Between the States...
...Fullmer is a casualty of the world fuel shortage. The traveling public, beset by uncertainty over flight cancellations, filling-station closings and gasoline-rationing schemes, is staying home in droves. As a result, the travel industry, which accounts for $60 billion a year in the U.S. alone, is hav ing one of its most chilling winters...
Choosing his 197 favorites out of so many, Stryker, now 80, offers many of these. What stands out for the reader today are the portraits. There is noth ing candid about them. The subjects have prepared a face to meet the world and are all the more revealing as a result. Paul Carter's formal view of a tuberculous family in New York is touched with an eerie stillness. But the exchange is certainly marked by what Stryker describes as "a natural regard for human dignity." Says Stryker: "Experts have said to me that's the face...
...close up from Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is one of only a few included in the book. A pity. Critic Lincoln Kirstein was nearly right when he said that in Evans' photographs, "even the inanimate things, bureau drawers, pots, tires, bricks, signs, seem to be wait ing in their own patient dignity, posing for their picture." The last word on all these photographs, however, perhaps should go to James Agee, Evans' admir ing partner in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Describing his love and admiration for the poor sharecroppers whom he and Evans celebrated with...