Word: forested
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Three of their four children are grown now, so that the Agnews have more leisure-or did until Nixon called. They enjoy Lawrence Welk and art," Judy says, although she did once relate to a painting depicting a forest of TV antennas. Her preferred reading is generally limited to newspapers and magazines...
...thus born overachievers. In contrast, a Fang finds individual excellence so reprehensible that the talented are treated as outsiders or even outlaws. Yoruba see nothing wrong with saving money, while the Tiv see worthwhile wealth only in the number of women they acquire. French Sociologist Jacques Binet found the forest people of Gabon "afraid of wealth: the possession of money was sinful to them...
More Urgent than the Bomb. Complaints notwithstanding, high-density living is likely to be the style of the future. "All the major cities are as alive and as likely to keep growing as a tropical rain forest," declares Nat Owings. "There is no possibility of their dying. They are viable, they are vibrant and their growth is rank." By the year 2000, some 400 million Americans will be living in roughly the same areas as today. The question is: Can they do so and remain more or less human? "The answer," says Owings, "has to be yes, and the strategy...
...honesty. Today architects like to show how buildings stand by calling attention to the structural system. In San Francisco's Alcoa building, the beautifully proportioned glass box hangs within a strong steel cage of vertical and diagonal steel beams. It thus avoids that hallmark of cheap building, a forest of interior columns. In the Gulf Life tower in Jacksonville, the architects went a step further; they expressed engineering stress lines by thickening concrete beams where they meet columns, narrowing them where there is less need for brawn...
When they are finally strong enough to stray from the clearing occasionally, Ranger James Wong and his staff carry them deep into the forest, abandoning them there along with a day's supply of food. But the orangs usually come scrambling home shortly after the food is gone. A few days later, Wong hauls them off again, and sometimes several wearying times after that, because the orangs stubbornly refuse to give up the easy living with their human friends...