Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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At 37 Miss Gordimer is one of a small number of internationally-recognized South African novelists and short-story writers. Born in Johannesburg, she has lived there all her life, taking the materials for her stories and novels from the geographical environment in which she found herself. As Miss Gordimer...
Moving away from the South African situation to her objectives as an artist, Miss Gordimer sees two great subjects for the modern writer. She defines them as man trying to escape from his situation and environment, and--the other side of the coin--man trying to find his place. In...
Students go on to graduate school anyway: last year four in five intended to do graduate study. Partly, no doubt, this trend responds to the growing complexity of all careers, but surely it reflects as well an unwillingness to leave the relatively safe academic environment, where grades are clear marks...
Project directors insisted that only pure coincidence had produced one finalist each from the Marines, Air Force and Navy. The big three, they said, were selected after 22 months of training and study during which scientists, psychologists and engineers carefully graded their performances. Topflight test pilots all, the astronauts dived...
Says Hollywood Columnist Joe Hyams: "We all work in an environment that's fraught with hostility. It's great to bust a board instead of a head." Board busting with the naked hand is a spectacular but comparatively recent demonstration of karate (literally, empty hands). Legend holds that...