Word: starke
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...article begins with the premise that "Something is a bit odd about people who proclaim 'I want to help other people"' and implies that "something" is that these people are stark raving mad. In the third paragraph, for example, the author quotes one woman as saying "What still strikes me, is I'll go to a party in New York, and inevitably the craziest person there is a psychiatrist. I mean the person who is literally doing childish antisocial things, making a fool of himself and embarrassing everyone else...
There had been earlier efforts to photograph the conditions of the poor but none so stark or so widely seen. Riis' unflinching pictures of tenement life mark a turning point between the Victorian idea that poverty was an evil to be condemned and the reformer's conviction that it was a condition to be remedied. Riis, like Mathew Brady, had a team of photographers (and like Brady, took credit for their work). Shooting in gloomy alleys and sunless rooming houses, he and his colleagues became pioneers of flash-lit photography -- a delicate undertaking in those days when the newly invented...
...camera. Fenton's scenes of the Crimean War, made in 1855, were discreet by the bloody standards of battlefield imagery to come: no pictures of combat, no punctured flesh that might offend Victorian sensibilities. No matter, they represented a watershed. With these views of officers at leisure and a stark gully littered with cannonballs, the curtain had gone up on the theater of combat...
...Gardner, Timothy H. O'Sullivan and George N. Barnard, who would become some of the best-known photographers of the century. (All three eventually left Brady's employ in a huff over his practice of attaching his own name to their work.) Their pictures gave war a new face, stark and squalid, the face of the openmouthed dead on the fields of Gettysburg...
Time was when what used to be called juvenile delinquents were offered a $ stark choice: join the service or go to jail. A dose of military discipline was supposed to make a man out of a boy and set him on the path to respectable citizenship. But the all-volunteer armed forces eliminated that option for what are now called youthful offenders. In a growing number of states, however, the purported benefits of paramilitary discipline are being showered on young criminals through programs known as "shock incarceration...