Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Grace Strasser-Mendana, slowly dying of cancer, tries, as the sardonic narrator of the book, to understand herself and the increasingly unintelligible world around her. She declares that she will be the witness in history to a California woman and by empirical evidence will piece together Charlotte Douglas's life. It is through this narration that we learn that Charlotte believes the world is peopled with others like herself and, as a result, selectively remembers events to conform to this idea. Charlotte has lost her child, Marin, to history, and this event disrupts the complacency of her life. The newspaper...
...afraid that the breeder-reactor program is being sacrificed in the expectation that environmentalists will produce less resistance to the mining and burning of coal. But in 20 years, when the sky is noticeably darker from soot created by coal plants, the cancer rate of people living in the cities is rising from breathing the coal wastes and the land is becoming scarred from coast to coast by strip mining, what will our alternatives be then? When President Carter warned that Americans would have to sacrifice, I do not think he meant us, but rather our children...
...political backpedaling to escape the explosion of consumer fury caused by the original decree. It was also a somewhat clubfooted end run around the so-called Delaney clause of the 1958 amendments to the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, which dictates the banning of any food additives that cause cancer in humans or laboratory animals. In the case of saccharin, some Canadian rats developed bladder cancer when they were fed the sweetener in amounts that would be equivalent, in a human, to 800 cans of diet soda a day throughout his life. The Delaney clause, however, makes no mention...
...language creates a web of images more vivid than the characters they describe. What one remembers from Warren's novel is first of all a series of word-pictures--of Jed's mistress tapping her sandal hypnotically in the glow of the firelight, of his wife, dying of cancer, lifting up her bony hand to him in pain and entreaty, of Jed himself holding a gun to the head of a German officer sneering "Heil Hitler!" The lingering force of these images is linked to the mode of narration; Jed tells his story--an odyssey which takes him from Dugton...
Matthew S. Meselson-"Chemicals and Cancer," Science Center...