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...Polaroid would have been a start--when you begin something other things attach to it," he contends. And by the same token, "blight breeds blight...
Pesticides and herbicides were produced by researchers in companies, universities and the Government to conquer the plagues of locusts and other insects that regularly beset grain crops. Bug-and disease-resistant seeds were developed. As a result, U.S. corn country has not suffered a severe blight since 1970. During the past decade petrochemical fertilizers again increased harvests...
Then the city, already infected with urban blight, began to deteriorate. Industries disappeared, buildings were abandoned, people moved out. The Stockton mansion was torn down, and replaced by a gas station. E.J. herself moved on to college, to New York, to Europe...
Much of today's criticism tends to "darken understanding and blight enjoyment" of literature, Dame Helen Gardner, Norton Professor of Poetry and professor of English literature emerita at Oxford, said yesterday in the first of the 1979-80 Norton Lectures, titled "Wanted: A New Humanism...
...Brett a chance to do those set pieces that distinguish his books, notably one in which a domineering talk show host is reduced to helpless blithering by a deftly counterpunching old comic (who is an admirably wise and well-developed character) and another satirizing those ghastly award shows that blight English telly as depressingly as they...