Word: enormouse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sir / The article on the current Broadway season [Dec. 25] really neglects the heart of the problem. Gigantic new theaters, like the Uris, have enormous overhead and operating costs that almost assure us that a show must be artistically dead before a producer dares take it on.
OVER the next two years, the leaders of the 93rd Congress face not only the usual legislative tasks but also the enormous job of revitalizing the Congress itself. The effort will enlist a wide variety of newcomers and veterans. Among those who will play the principal roles in that effort...
Until the current bombing campaign, only one B-52 had been lost in combat in seven years and 100,000 sorties in Indochina. Yet in the past two weeks, 15 were lost-each with a crew of six, most of whom are listed either as missing or captured. Why the...
Nature should also be modified in other ways, Dubos believes. "Many richnesses of nature are brought to light only in regions that have been humanized"-that is, transformed by human toil into agricultural lands, gardens and parks. But Dubos warned that for every pound of food produced by these areas...
When last seen in a fine short novel called Grendel, John Gardner was busy turning monsters into men-and vice versa. His highly compressed story sang and winced and gibbered in its metaphysical chains, but it said a good deal about the dark origins and necessary delusions of society. The...