Word: working
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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History's Representatives. Unlike most people who see their work, the Bechers are not interested in preserving the industrial relics they photograph. "It is necessary that these things be destroyed when their usefulness is exhausted," says Bernhard. "This is purely economic architecture. They throw it up, they use it, they misuse it, they throw it away." But more than one historical commission has decided to preserve an old water tower or mill after the Bechers photographed it. That fact makes plant managers wary of the husband-and-wife team, whose mere interest in an obsolete object may induce local...
Hope in Age. Whether the blacks' pressure tactics will bring quick change remains to be seen. In Pittsburgh, work has been halted on eight major projects, including the U.S. Steel building, pending the outcome of negotiations between the demonstrators and the unions. Chicago unions broke off what had seemed to be promising talks with the militants late last week after a group of blacks invaded the state A.F.L.-C.I.O. convention and pushed the 82-year-old state federation president, Reuben Soderstrom, away from a microphone. For the long run, the Negroes' best hope may lie in the advancing...
Paul Burkholder, 66, who is now at the University of Puerto Rico and works in a laboratory at Mayagüez, also serves as senior marine scientist for Lederle Laboratories. Some of his antibacterial finds have come from sponges collected from as far away as Australia's Great Barrier Reef and Palau in the Caroline Islands. When he arrived in Rhode Island last week, he had scarcely dried off from a scuba-diving, sponge-hunting expedition on the outermost edge of the Caribbean, between the British islands of Virgin Gorda and Anegada. Burkholder made his dives with an assistant...
...Doll's House, wives all over the Western world began mentally packing their suitcases. The idea behind Nora's leaving was lofty. Woman was no longer to be a possession, a commodity, a glorified nursemaid, a kept dilettante on the sidelines of the world's imposing work. She would forge her own identity and earn something called "respect." The amusing thing about this, as G. K. Chesterton once pointed out, was that "a million women announced their intention to be free and promptly began taking dictation...
...also pitied because of her impulsive marriage to Vadinho, one of the great gamblers and womanizers in all Brazil. The novel begins at carnival time with Vadinho's sudden death while dancing the samba in drag, "with that exemplary enthusiasm he brought to everything he did except work...