Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spring. ("You can stay on past 66 as a professor but you have to retire as a master," he grouses. "It should be the other way around--the brain deteriorates before the body does.") But the story of the Agassiz Cup celebration still seems characteristic of him--both in content and in style, for a certain kind of sharp, logical humor as well as, perhaps, a certain cheerful indifference to happenings that would excite or upset or change the attitudes of many people. It's a style, arguably, that found expression in Smithies's work in Vietnam as well...
...life Clarke once again wrote a long narrative poem based on old Irish myths and legends. In "The Healing of Mis" he turns an 18th century tale of a wild woman tamed by music and sex into a more graphic love poem of seduction. But no longer content with the ancient ways. Clarke adds the woman's dreams to reveal the hot flames of her mind...
...David Drach) as the young Michel. Its presentation is limited in perspective, focusing exclusively on what happens to one family, as seen through the eyes of a ten-year-old. Michel as director meticulously and lovingly reconstructs his childhood memories, suffusing them with retrospective pleasure despite their sinister content...
...many coal companies, these western areas, chiefly in Montana, Wyoming and North Dakota, have been the land of the future. Reserves estimated at 32 billion tons lie close to the surface and are easy to mine. The low sulfur content of the coal makes it attractive to pollution-prone utilities. The bill throws into doubt, at least for the moment, many of the coal companies' plans for expansion. "It is fair to say that this bill was not designed to facilitate the mining of western coal but rather to prevent it," complains Donald Cook, chairman of the nation...
...instinct and tradition, U.S. labor unions have been content to leave the actual running of companies to management, preferring to stress the bread-and-butter issues of wages, hours and working conditions. But in Europe, worker participation in management decision making is an established idea that keeps spreading continually into more countries and industries. The practice, known in German as Mitbestimmung (literally, having a voice in), took root shortly after World War II in West Germany, where coal miners and steel workers began sitting alongside bosses on industry supervisory boards. In recent years, the notion of giving workers a greater...