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Thus, in the iambics of his Ulysses, Alfred Lord Tennyson voiced the anomie that propelled the ancient Greeks to embark on fragile craft in search of islands where life, far from the mainland tensions of politics and war, would be eternally serene. That urge-or illusion -has never been stronger than it is today in the U.S. and Canada, where with aircraft, power boats and well-laden wallets, romantics and hard-nosed investors alike can seek modern Happy Isles remote from the purgatory of urban-suburban life...
...relations will hardly be placid this fall. Two of Harvard's union contracts expire in November and December, and negotiations on both will begin late this month. Butler says he expects settlements with the 600-member Harvard University Employees Representative Association and the 340-member Metropolitan Boston and Vicinity Craft Maintenance Council, but the University and the unions are still likely to sit down at the bargaining table with substantially different ideas about wages...
...Concorde, say its manufacturers, is expected to start airline service in 1976. Even if the controversial plane does not win permission to land in the U.S., the numbers of supersonic craft jetting through the earth's upper atmosphere could be a threat to the well-being of Americans. It now seems clear that very high speeds at out-of-sight altitudes could drastically upset the whole planet's ecological balance...
...cleaves the floor of the Atlantic almost all the way from the Arctic Ocean to Antarctica. Last week, as the scientists who took part in FAMOUS (for French-American Mid-Ocean Undersea Study) returned home from their expedition to the bottom of the sea, they reported that their little craft had discovered important new clues to the secrets of continental drift...
...least sanctifying Bruce himself, and he renders dignity and wholeness to people whom Bruce scorned. Goldman employs the same narrative techniques and extremities of diction, the verbal overkill, that characterize a faulted New Journalism, but he uses them with a measure of critical judgment, detached reflection and craft that others lack...