Word: surveyers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effect is one of aimlessness. Though the book is divided into four parts--"Origins," "Growing Up", "Coming Apart", "Where We Are Now"--their intent is garbled, and it is completely unclear whether the progression is intended to be a historical survey of madness up through our time, or a portrait of the individual's slide into insanity. He discusses the great madmen of the past, both historical and literary, in the same breath as incidents and personages of contemporary madness. Interspersed with this plethora of examples are the case histories of six individuals whom society at one time deemed insane...
Tilt Meters. Geologist Robert Castle, who with colleagues at the U.S. Geological Survey discovered the Palmdale bulge while examining old geodetic records, is keeping an open mind on the subject. The swelling could be caused by dangerous strains and dilatency, he says, or might be merely a "false pregnancy," resulting from other, less menacing geological quirks. He points out that there have been instances of land rising-including an earlier uplift south of Palmdale at the turn of the century-without subsequent earthquakes...
Authors David and Nancy Dall Milton were English teachers at Peking's First Foreign Languages Institute until the Revolution. The couple describe themselves as "Pierres at Borodino," who, like the character in Tolstoy's War and Peace, survey the battleground less as participants than as observers. Their experience provides intimate details of the often mysterious doings of the cultural movement...
Mayor Vellucci called for a public meeting, to be held April 27 at the Kennedy School, in which affected citizens can voice their objections to the Sacred Heart location. He also requested a traffic survey and impact statement be prepared for the area...
...chose Lowell Lecture Hall on the basis of a survey of University's building he made, the release says. The building, which is on the corner of Kirkland and Oxford Streets, includes eight classrooms and a large lecture hall...