Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THE IDEA FOR Ira Levin's The Boys from Brazil is potentially no more idiotic than those which have fueled many successful Hollywood thrillers. A nasty Nazi doctor clones 94 infants from a graft of Hitler's skin, and plants his babies all over the world, trusting that in the...
It is a shame that Gordon lapses into such a sloppy narrative after the powerful beginning of Final Payments. Despite her disappointing story line and characters, the author's language is straightforward and immediate. In providing minute descriptions of her characters' physical environment, Mary Gordon's prose echoes that of...
What members of these factions forget is that they are citizens not of a cause but of a country of many causes. The adamant attitude that gives some motorists victory on the expressway may well propel some other faction to triumph on another issue - environment, conservation, name it - in a...
The School is "busy raising money, developing a very muscular intellectual agenda for a center in business and government, another in regulation, another in capital formation, one in energy and environment," Ira Jackson, associate dean of the Kennedy School, says.
Whatever a man's politics, whatever a man's job, his existence is contingent on the same elements. The dying condition of the environment of which he is a part behooves him to take whatever steps he may to save that environment and thereby save himself.