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...electric power. Altogether, soaring fuel prices will pump $8 billion to $10 billion of pure inflation into the economy. Still, there is a limit to what consumers will pay. Even without Government restrictions, higher prices will force many Americans to forgo some of their wasteful ways: the long, speedy, aimless car trips; round-the-clock air" conditioning and hothouse home heating...
...characterized by a savage stubborn streak and a suicidal recklessness, which contrasts with the demure tones of their surroundings. Faulkner's countryside is saturated with heat. The days are endless, windless, dissolving afternoons and slow silver moon of 'opaline tranquillity.' He peoples his book with "Negroes, slow and aimless as figures of a dark placed dream." And his characters' movements are "hushed,...sibilant...
Devotees do not believe the guru's teachings to be anti-intellectual. When one receives knowledge, "the mind finds its true place," and ends its "aimless wandering," said a member of the publicity staff of Boston's Divine Light Mission...
...first one way, then the other, a headless eel was loose in the Middle East last week. So some Japanese described the skyjacked J.A.L. 747 as it flew east from Amsterdam to Dubai, then west again to Damascus, and finally to its last landing in Libya in an eerily aimless 87-hour journey that endangered the lives of all aboard and caused Israel to go on military alert. Fearing that the jumbo jet might be used in a kamikaze attack on one of their cities, the Israelis were prepared, if it came too close, to black out their entire country...
...conflict between new ways and old beliefs, prejudices and fears, the battle between rationality and mysticism, the widening gap between generations. In "My Son the Murderer," a father becomes obsessed with the conduct of his college-graduate son who speaks to no one, sits in his room or takes aimless walks, and tears up letters written to him by his girlfriend. Looking at the situation through the father's puzzled eyes, Malamud holds up little hope for the younger generation. Resignedly the father discovers a sorrowful variation of the stock Jewish-American term, "my son the doctor." Trailing...