Word: starkness
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...Vietnam anti-war movement, and the video of body bags being beamed back to America's living rooms. Even environmentalism has its iconic images, like Cleveland's heavily polluted Cuyahoga River catching fire in the 1960s, smog wreathing Los Angeles's skyline during the next decade and even the stark hole in the ozone over Antarctica. To help galvanize public support - especially around a complex issue - the right picture really can be worth a thousand words...
...Luis Obispo County - Strobridge is worried about the impact the power plants will have on endangered species such as the San Joaquin kit fox. He is also concerned about the effect on dwindling water supplies as well as the more intangible treasures of the area: the unimpeded views, the stark silence, the rustic natural beauty, the huge wilderness area called the Carrizo Plain National Monument just down the valley - that is, just about everything that led him to buy the property 10 years ago. (Read a story on mapping the best solar-energy sites...
...Darkness” (which Johnny Cash liked so much he later recorded his own version with Oldham on backup) toward more polished studio trimmings. But in pulling in all the extra instruments (marimba, flute, tenor saxophone, and accordian, to name a few) it loses something of the stark devastation that gave voice to America’s stranger corners of existence. The album’s title should in the end serve as a warning to Oldham himself—amidst all the banjos and choirs, the warm shadowy spaces between the words may be lost...
...could be difficult to do within the short time frame,” Calareso said. She added that the committee should soon be seeing proposals coming out of graduate seminars, which were designed to develop courses for the General Education program. —Staff writer Rachel A. Stark can be reached at rstark@fas.harvard.edu...
...sure students will have good offerings. The other newly-developed course—Societies of the World 20: “China in the Wider World 1600-2000”—has yet to post a description. —Staff writer Rachel A. Stark can be reached at rstark@fas.harvard.edu