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...economically depressed Lowell-Dracut area. Olympic Refineries has been investigating coastal locations in Rhode Island and New Hampshire. But wherever New England's first refinery may end up, local residents will have to approve it after confronting the persistent dilemma of economics v. ecology -the worst conundrum of the whole energy crisis...
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...Cities, The World of Venice), branched skillfully into history (Pax Britannica), and once turned a bespoke book on, of all things, the World Bank (The Road to Huddersfield) into one of the more memorable popular essays on economics. Yet, as Jan Morris admits in her first book, Conundrum, an autobiography about the switch from "James to Jan," James Morris regularly used to pray "Please, God, make me a girl...
Eternal Womanhood. Why? That is part of the conundrum of the title, and it remains something of a mystery to the end. Like most transsexuals, Morris was never a homosexual or a transvestite. The book convincingly insists that the road to Casablanca was not taken in the pursuit of sexual gratification. It was simply that during the whole of a successful life as a schoolboy, soldier and father-in short, as a male-Morris was tormented by the growing realization that his gender, his inner self, his center of being, his very soul, was feminine. Everything that he eventually...
Fortunately for the reader, Jan Morris reads better than Goethe. She writes, in fact, very much like James. Conundrum is a lover's leap removed from those case histories of sexual maladjustment that dish up undigested gobbets of Freud liberally sauced with prurience and self-pity. The book is a brief and graceful, often witty memoir of Morris' inner and outer life. The outer life proceeds from a happy childhood in an artistic upper-class Welsh family (he read Huck Finn, cherished animals, and was taught to "wash my hands before tea"), through years as a choirboy...