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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...promising leaders, not because of any great achievement of their own but because they contrasted so sharply with their less attractive colleagues. Now, without those three agitators, they will have to hold their own. To rise further politically, as both have said they plan to, the new breed will have to either cultivate a following of their own or trade their independence to the heavy-handed White administration. The latter possibility is an unlikely avenue for Connolly or Sullivan who both entertain mayoral ambitions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Chickens Come Home to Roost | 11/11/1977 | See Source »

...like pebbles on the beach. Looking like scattered desert plants, wooden shacks and suburban pre-fabs just out of the ground with random incongruity. The paths have no names, few of the houses are numbered. This is an Indian village, changed, yet unchanged from centuries ago. Children play, dogs breed wild. Noises, the restless sea, the rush of a lonely car, wind. People are building...

Author: By David Dalquist, | Title: The Forgotten Americans | 11/2/1977 | See Source »

...WHAT WILL give Herbert fans a feeling of deja vu, Dosadi, with its poisonous ecology, holistically breeds a supremely cunning civilization. The Gowachins established a colony there to observe human development. The densely populated city Chu is under constant siege from the desperate people of the "rim," who are exposed to the brunt of the planet's hardships. Their only chance for species survival is to breed uncontrollably...

Author: By Mike Kendall, | Title: A Malthusian Fantasy | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

...really want is the status and not the material good itself. One doesn't see much glamour in transportation, decent nutrition, heating and a myriad of other needed goods. It is much easier for someone who lacks nothing or very little to say that material goods themselves do not breed happiness...

Author: By J. WYATT Emerich, | Title: Progress on Tiptoe | 10/22/1977 | See Source »

SLEEPY SOUTHERN TOWNS breed insanity. The stagnant air and oppressive mugginess drive their inhabitants crazy. Eccentricities grow into neuroses and simpletons live their empty lives in third floor attics or jilted spinsters spend decades frightening little children who walk on their lawns. In the Harvard Premiere Society's Complex, undergraduate Forrest M. Stone improvises on this theme, turning a modern apartment complex in Alabama into a way-station for a variety of misfits and lunatics...

Author: By Michael Kendall, | Title: Pop Tarts and Pathos | 10/15/1977 | See Source »

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