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Well, they could, until recently, in the cleaner stretch of the Charles which lies upstream of Harvard. Over last weekend, however, thousands of fish began dying in this stretch of the river, near Water-town. Most of the dead fish were carp, although some bluegills and suckers also died...
...power of religion fades, moral values disappear into the formless, indiscriminate carp-mouth of technological progress. Inevitably, old spiritual terrain is left unprotected. Pseudo philosophers, crypto-religionists, pyrotechnical polemicists (all fuse and no bang) are bound to move in. The key question for all religions is how to cope with and justify the control over man of a universe that appears to be spectacularly indifferent. Death is the most conspicuous example of such control...
Closing the Sluices. Over the years, the pollution has taken an ecological as well as esthetic toll. The Rhine salmon, once a river staple, has long since disappeared from the murky waters, as has the sturgeon. The hardy varieties of fish that remain-bream, carp, perch and pike-cannot be sold because the river's high phenol content makes them smell and taste foul. Last week even the survivors were imperiled. Millions of dead fish floated to the surface, victims of the worst case of pollution in the river's history...
...celebrants of his achievements, we still long for more, I suppose we are only being human. As long as we don't carp, our expectations for so good a writer are really parallel to his own hopes for himself--always to achieve more, always to make a deeper contact with the world and with himself...
...Spielman Peter Hepler A. K. Solomon Henry Ehrenreich R. P. Levine Eric Carlson Alexander Dalgarno David R. Walters Carter Wilson Charles A. Whitney Richard McCray William Alfred Charles W. Burnham Charles G. Gross Gerald M. Platt Howard B. Emmons D. A. Harnett Irving J. Rein Peter S. McKinney Carp; S. Deppe Michael Fried John W. Hutchinson Patrica L. Foster Charles S. Maier Thomas D. Wegmann Francisco Varela D. W. Del Tredici Joseph P. Manson David V. Cross H. B. Fell T. J. Shankland Hildur Colot David Kendrick R. Z. Kothavala Richard Geody Curtis Callan Rorrest J. Robinson Werner Stumm Philip...