"The cause is the model of civilization that we have created.
THE Saturday Greenmarket at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn is a pleasant little model of civilization, bringing farmers together with local residents, like relatives gathered for a meal.
In that sense the clock may even be a mechanical model of civilization's own project, both in how it measures time and in the fact that it succeeds in measuring it at all.
Here scientists and political leaders from the Soviet Union and the United States met in the years after 1972 to discuss, in the framework of the new field of systems analysis, such problems as acid rain, nuclear winter, the impact of technology on society, and the possibility of 'neutral' mathematical modeling of civilization's problems.
Talk of the defense of "a French model of civilization" against the American masks the fact that the French private sector shows every sign of embracing a rugged American capitalism.
The art, artifacts and models of Mesoamerican civilization stir the soul; the Maya hall alone could take up one visit.
Rather than remain chained to a model of culture and civilization that separates the protagonists in the Middle East conflict, perhaps it is high time that we traveled back in time to rediscover the legacy of Maimonides that is so richly detailed in these wonderful books.
Now 57, he has long since left performance behind to make sculptures that are discourses on military might, ominous models of overbuilt civilizations and experiments with art and technology.
Dido's Carthage is a model of enlightened civilization.
The blow fell on the active merger of church and state into a single ideology, on the attempts to create a model of "Orthodox civilization" in Russia.
This was a time in which a handful of people provided the model of a civilization in which old ideas were called in question and new ones put quietly forward.
