Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bakunin, Kropotkin--sweep the slate clean...
MARK HELPRIN LOOKS well-scrubbed. His face, in a vaguely romantic photograph on the back of the dust jacket, is clean-cut and clean-shaven; the face of a liberal, New York-bred college graduate. It comes as no surprise is that he went to Harvard. What is more of a surprise is that he once served in the British merchant navy, the Israeli infantry, and the Israeli Air Force. In the title story, "A Dove of the East," and in others scattered throughout the book, Helprin re-creates the people and places of his travels. The settings of these...
...them. The second experience was reading Tobias Schneebaum's Keep The River on Your Right. Another really good book for people is Jonathan Kozol's passionate The Night Is Dark and I Am Far From Home. As far as other Christmas presents, I've got peace and quiet, maybe clean air and water. Really, if I could have a horse, I'd be so happy...
...President wants 200 nukes in operation by 1985 as a key part of his program for national self-sufficiency in energy. "It is time to set aside emotion," adds Frank Zarb, chief of the Federal Energy Administration. "We must get on with the job of utilizing this vital, clean and abundant energy source." Without it, he says, the U.S. would be at the mercy of foreign oil producers, a prospect that he fears could be "devastating" to the national economy...
...children, Charles, 7, Edward, 6, and Joquel, 2. "I've missed a lot of their growing up," he says. Other times, Greene is happy weeding the cucumbers and squash in his garden, sipping a glass of white wine while he listens to the Temptations, or helping his wife Agnes clean house. A compulsive tidier, Joe says, "It gives me peace of mind to know things are in their place...