Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only two months ago that Jimmy Carter left Plains to move into the White House, but the elation his neighbors felt then has vanished. Plains has lost its innocence. The once picturesque and placid farm town of 683 people in southwest Georgia is being buried beneath the detritus of the commercialized American presidency. Worse, jealousy and avarice are turning the townspeople against one another as they attempt to capitalize on-or somehow endure-the 5,000 tourists a day who descend upon them. Jimmy Carter's brother Billy summed it up for TIME Correspondent Stanley Cloud: "The town...
DEEP WELLS. By sinking wells, Egyptian geologists are attempting to tap the vast underground reservoirs that are believed to lie beneath the Western Desert, some of them as much as 1,200 meters (4,000 ft.) below the sand. "Getting at this water," says Egyptian Geologist Rushdi Said, "will make it possible for man to again live in the desert." But only for a while. Filled at the rate of only millimeters a year, these reservoirs of fossil waters are replenished so slowly that for all practical purposes their contents are finite. Though they may yield water for centuries...
...Schlesinger is talking about are not located in the already developed, deep mines of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Instead, they are found in thick seams near the surface in Colorado, Montana and Wyoming, where they are most economically recoverable by landscape-scarring strip mining. Some of the coal lies beneath federal land that has been set aside for recreational purposes, and the Sierra Club and other conservationist groups have been making it difficult to open that acreage to coal mining. Other Western environmentalists also are appalled. "It's an effort to New Jerseyize the West," complains Carolyn Johnson, head...
...government to bail them out of trouble. The book's title cannot be pushed too far. All ages have their unknowns and inconsistencies. If they did not, the author would find little on which to hone his wit-an effective weapon for getting at realities beneath the appearances. He notes, for example, that Adam Smith, the legendary theoretician of capitalism and unrestricted trade, ended his days as the commissioner of customs in Edinburgh. Galbraith also draws a marvelous parallel between Gogol's Dead Souls and the Equity Funding scandal. In 19th century Russia it was the names...
...adhering fiercely to free choice in a determined world--of Andrei, Prince Bolkonski who gets sucked into the wars, of Natasha Rostova, his young fiancee who does not manage to remain faithful, of the Bolkonski serfs who incite an abortive revolt--all positioned so carefully in the novel, collapse beneath the weight of the simplistic anti-war statement of the play...