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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...answer lies in the structure of energy production in this country, which is based on large power companies and huge generating plants in central locations. Power production is a very big-time, high-technology game, and a lot of big money flows into the power company coffers as a result of the oligopolistic concentration of capital in the power industry. Given that the fossil fuel honeymoon is just about over, the big power companies know they must find another way. But because of their orientation, they concentrate their search for alternatives on energy sources that will produce massive amounts...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: In Search of the Sun | 4/6/1979 | See Source »

...this trilogy, history and value remain central themes. The first volume of the trilogy picks up where Liang Ch'i-ch'ao left off, taking "the problem of intellectual continuity," the persistence of ideas in changing contexts in space and time, to a society-wide level. No longer tied to the life of a single man, Levenson dispensed with conventions of narrative history, choosing instead to write three books as a web, jumping centuries and cultures to find the comparisons that would treat the same theme from a myriad of settings. From treating crises of intellectuals in an intellectual system...

Author: By Thomas M. Levenson, | Title: Joseph R. Levenson: A Retrospective | 4/6/1979 | See Source »

...amount of dopamine in the brain, can bring on psychotic symptoms identical to those of schizophrenia. Recent studies also have indicated that schizophrenics have 50% more dopamine in their brains than non-schizophrenics, and twice the number of dopamine receptors, the sites where the chemical locks into the central nervous system. One line of thinking is that some people are born with high dopamine levels, but that somehow an "environmental trigger," perhaps some life crisis, sets the stage for schizophrenia. But a growing opinion is that the sickness is entirely chemical. Says Matthysse: "I'd be surprised if family environment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Psychiatry on the Couch | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

...admire the performance. It brought into focus their criticism of Chinese musicianship: the inability to sustain rhythm and tempo over a long stretch. "You must maintain control if the excitement and beauty are to come out of the music itself," says Violinist Marylou Speaker, whose gift to the Peking Central Philharmonic was a metronome. "You sometimes hear amateur groups rushing the pace at home. The tendency is to tense up in a tough passage. When things got hard, Liu took off and was out of context with the music." Ozawa dealt with the same problem in working with the Peking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: On a Wing and a Scissors | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

...Plays [a pinball arcade on Mass. Ave. between Harvard and Central Squares] would have to be relocated in Fenway Park to meet the footage requirement," Barry Rosenthal, an attorney for several Cambridge arcades, said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: City Approves Pinball Codes | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

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