Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Enacted in the rush of War on Poverty Legislation, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 was billed as the Federal government's first step toward improving the quality of the nation's public schools, particularly those schools serving children euphemistically described as "disadvantaged...
Dwarfing the actors as only the Loeb can do, making action seem remote and impersonal, Sebastian Melmoth's impressive but ugly set puts the Loeb one step closer to a kind of synthetheatre defeating the electricity theatre can generate between stage and audience. The set's colors are not so much terra cottas as flesh and, added to the admirable but arty lighting, the whole thing was weighted toward the ghastly...
Isle of Youth. Concern for agriculture has benefited the historically deprived campesino, who now enjoys free education and health care. He may soon lose his freedom, however. The government is building a huge banana plantation on the south coast, which will be a step toward its massive effort at colonizing and communizing farms. Helping the effort are Young Communist Work Camps, where boys go for two years to combine party indoctrination with agriculture and schooling...
...structural system. In San Francisco's Alcoa building, the beautifully proportioned glass box hangs within a strong steel cage of vertical and diagonal steel beams. It thus avoids that hallmark of cheap building, a forest of interior columns. In the Gulf Life tower in Jacksonville, the architects went a step further; they expressed engineering stress lines by thickening concrete beams where they meet columns, narrowing them where there is less need for brawn...
...building is needed or if it is possible to save the old one. Then you ask where it should be. How will it affect the environment of the surroundings? It should make a contribution to the community just as the community provides it with services." The last step in the process is design...