Word: hideously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ancient, Hideous Fact...
...Your story and pictures of the My Lai massacre [Nov. 28] eloquently reveal the ancient, hideous fact: how war so harshly democratizes both oppressor and victim -by depriving each of his privilege and uniqueness as a human being...
According to James Laver, the British historian of women's fashions, the same dress will be "indecent" if worn ten years before its time, and "daring" if worn a year before, "smart" the year of its coming of age, and "hideous" ten years after. But it will become "amusing" 30 years after its vintage year, and ultimately it may become "romantic" or even "beautiful." The same sort of pattern, Laver maintains, can be traced in interior decoration and design. He may be right...
McHarg grew up near Glasgow, hating the hideous city while exploring the handsome countryside around it. At 16, he decided to spend "a life giving to others the benison which nature gave to me." His model was Lancelot ("Capability") Brown, the 18th century landscape architect who transformed much of England into a showpiece of natural beauty before the onslaught of the Industrial Revolution. As McHarg fondly recalls, Brown was an ecological Faust. Once, on being asked to save Ireland, he grandly replied: "I have not yet finished England...
...Clearly situations do exist where it is necessary for the university to speak out on issues that do not directly relate to university affairs," Dorfman added. "The extermination of the Jews in Nazi Germany is one such example- that was such a hideous inequity that you have to overthrow the niceties. But that just isn't the case here...