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...wrote that "to the extent that it becomes accepted in any culture that religion is largely an affair of the heart or of the intuitive qualities of the mind and that the rational mind is irrelevant or worse, so far it will be believed that the rational faculties are barren or perhaps dangerous...
...book grows from a television series Galbraith filmed for the BBC along the lines of J. Bronowski's Ascent of Man. In the series, Galbraith jaunts around the world to various spots of particular import in his study, strolling along the countryside of Marx's youth and surveying the barren wastes of Death Valley (which he offers as an example of the New York-Philadelphia corridor after World War III). As a substitute--a good one--for the varied film clips that bring his series to life, The Age of Uncertainty is studded with more than a hundred photographs...
Jumbo jets screamed down through hairy April clouds, and Aqueduct looked gray and barren. The place is functional, not aesthetic, and now that off-track betting presides in New York City, crowds that once pressed to see horseflesh and jockeys' silks have shriveled. Half deserted in a spattering rain. Aqueduct was no classic backdrop for young triumph...
Offhand Humor. The plot is as authentic and insubstantial as a whiff of marijuana (Screenwriter Barren is an alumnus of the Boston Phoenix and the Real Paper). One of the reporters cashes in on his underground experiences by selling a book. A beginner tries to expose a local record bootlegger. Lovers climb in and out of various beds. The new publisher takes over; one staffer is fired; another quits. The paper goes...
...vessels from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution were looking for underwater geysers or "hot spots." They were conducting their search along the Galapagos Rift, where lava from the earth's molten interior rises toward the surface between two great crustal plates. Such depths are thought to be relatively barren of nutrients-and thus of life. But photographs from the deep revealed small areas, each around a warm spring, that were teeming with clams, mussels, tube worms and scavenger crabs. The probable explanation for the profusion of these organisms, announced last week: warm waters from the submarine hot spots...