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Like a biblical prophet, Christopher Lasch appears at the gates of our culture with dire pronouncements: "Storm warnings, portents, hints of catastrophe haunt our times ... Defeat in Viet Nam, economic stagnation, and the impending exhaustion of natural resources have produced a mood of pessimism in higher circles, which spreads through the rest of society as people lose faith in their leaders ... As social life becomes more and more warlike and barbaric, personal relations, which ostensibly provide relief from these conditions, take on the character of combat ... a desperate concern for personal survival, sometimes disguised as hedonism, engulfs the middle class...
Good meals, ça va sans dire, should not be corseted by classic formulas or restricted to scarce foodstuff. This is what nouvelle cuisine is all about: less emphasis on heavy, masking sauces, greater reliance on the fresh flesh, fish, fowl and vegetables that can be encouraged to speak for themselves. Jean and Pierre Troisgros most elegantly practice the new cookery at their three-star restaurant in the Rhone Valley. In The Nouvelle Cuisine (Morrow; 254 pages; $12.95), the chers frères range easily from red mullet with beef marrow to that little-known marvel, coupe-jarret, which consists...
...time for the MBTA to stop making dire predictions and launch a supplementary EIS on the changed extension plans before a federal district court orders it to do so. This process would allow Cambridge residents and businessmen to have imput into the project while helping to insure that the extension will run smoothly if hte project is allowed to begin. Regardless of the outcome of the EIS--whether the extension is found to be environmentally safe or not--the interests of the community should be met in the process...
...into the atmosphere from a truck accident with one of their disposal vehicles. Anyone who has driven a car knows it is impossible to anticipate a drunk driver, or a bad storm. Those who do not recognize the untimely risks of nuclear power, especially in the light of their dire consequences, have blinded their common sense with zeal...
...Culmann's dire prediction is even partly fulfilled, and some U.S. airlines are financially weakened, the American planemakers that supply them could be hurt. In turn, the nation's balance of payments would suffer. Of all commercial plane sales in non-Communist countries, Boeing rings up about 52%, McDonnell Douglas 28%, and Lockheed 3%. At about $7 billion a year, sales of aircraft, engines and parts abroad are the second largest U.S. export (after food...