Word: contente
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hara's death that "he knows about court tennis and custom tailoring and chic clubs...") narrowed his literary scope. Some characters do stand out: Julian English is well drawn, and the recurring figure of Jimmy Malloy, an autobiographical character, is quite believable. But O'Hara the novelist was content to write about a social order that, in the words of the critic Conrad Knickerbocker, "began to flake away...
Next Stop, Greenwich Village lacks intrinsic content. Hollow as an icon, its stereotyped forms have to be filled with one's personal evocations of the era. Otherwise the picture is left empty...
...presenting the office of the presidency as devoid of ideological content, Carter is of course perpetrating the biggest lie of all. The powers traditionally associated with the presidency--the power to push or to veto legislation, the administration of defense and social welfare appropriations, the setting of domestic and foreign policy priorities--all have direct political consequences. It requires an astonishing naivete to believe differently...
...when Congress passed amendments to the Clean Air Act, one of the provisions forbade the burning of fuels with a high sulfur content in the most populous parts of the country. Since at the time nearly 80% of U.S. coal production did not meet the standards, many electric utilities-coal's biggest steady customer-switched to oil. Industry efforts to get Congress to soften the law failed. Finally, in 1974, the Federal Energy Administration, seeking to save oil, ordered 25 utilities to switch back to coal in 74 plants. So far only one power plant has actually made that...
...immense coal reserves between Arizona and Montana. But few operators chose to mine the deposits, mainly because the coal was too far from the biggest markets. Yet after 1970, the Western coal began to exert a powerful new appeal for the simple reason that it has a low sulfur content...