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- MILESTONES, Page 66
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- DIED. Lewis Mumford, 94, prolific writer and social
- philosopher whose more than 30 books and decades of magazine
- articles (mainly in the New Yorker) decried the dehumanizing
- effect of modern machines, urban development and impersonal
- organizations on the individual; in Amenia, N.Y. A city planner
- and historian who never acquired a college degree, he
- persistently argued that "the organized cult of machinery" is
- "a monster that can transform man into a passive, purposeless
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