Word: topicalities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...topic of Finch's formal talk, the problem of preserving the world's natural environment from the destructive effects of industry, technology, and population growth, aroused little controversy. Buthe was challenged on a number of issues in a question and answer period after the speech...
...education, poverty and Medicare, the executives of the 50 states have been encouraged by President Nixon's proposals that the Federal Government pay for part of the welfare program and share some of its tax intake with the states. So it was money that provided the major topic as the Governors convened for their 61st annual conference at the Broadmoor hotel in Colorado Springs, Colo. In particular, they discussed the money to be had in the nebulous kitty known as the "peace dividend," meaning savings from an end to the Viet Nam war that might be diverted to domestic...
...implicitly arrogant demand to produce something more spare, more pure. Mies' discipline is demanding, and except in his hands, a confining one. No one can build a better Seagram Building. And by its very austerity, Mies' esthetic provides no vocabulary for a whole city landscape-a topic that obsesses most young architects, who talk not of individual buildings but of "reshaping the urban environment." A city, or even an avenue lined with Seagram Buildings would be a desolation...
...aircraft. The Senate critics also want to deny the Pentagon a $377 million nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. They argue that in the missile age the carrier makes too massive and lumbering a target, and that the U.S. is the only major sea power still building them. Another thorny topic to be discussed is whether the U.S. still needs-and can afford -to maintain 428 major overseas military bases...
THERE has not been a topic for such worried conversation since James Baldwin forecast the fire next time. Suburban matrons predict the melting of the polar icecaps followed by catastrophic floods. Busy executives and bearded hippies discuss the presence of DDT in the flesh of Antarctic penguins. All sorts of Americans utter new words like ecosystem and eutrophication. Pollution may soon replace the Viet Nam war as the nation's major issue of protest...