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...juggles, and growing control of all sources of energy. Second, we are victims of the U.S. government, with its blind reliance on the price mechanism (import taxes, natural gas deregulation) to force conservation. Vast amounts of energy consumption are simply built into the system, with interstates, suburbs, glass buildings, etc. The only way to force conservation without penalizing the poor or adding to the corporate coffers is to ration energy...
...which the reader will identify. This method depends on the sort of person who will shout "Hey--that's ME" when he sees his face in a group photograph. To this end, Ward gives us accounts of riding in the family car, going to high school, fertilizing his lawn, etc. He doesn't realize that this is not enough; these situations can at best serve as a matrix for creative comedy...
...other industries, centralization of newspaper ownership has led employees to heightened awareness of their own vulnerability. But so far, these unions have failed to realize their promise. The news reporters and editorial writers belong to a mammoth newspaper guild that covers linotype operators, want-ad salesmen, shop foremen, etc. Consequently, the union deals strictly with what its various members have in common such as health benefits, vacation time automatic pay increases, and other work issues that have traditionally concerned labor unions...
...Perhaps there will be a change of mind. Syria is very extremist, would like to see us destroyed, etc., but Syria cannot attack us. It would be suicidal. Jordan will not attack us alone. They just can't do it. And Iraq is behind Jordan. So when we have peace between Israel and Egypt, we have de facto peace in the Middle East...
...nice to say, "Welcome to a new year of films at Harvard." But with "classics" passed from one house film society to the next, "classics" screened and rescreened at the Brattle, Harvard Square, etc., and "classics" remade into things like "Heaven Can Wait," currently in Boston commercial conemas, by rights you should be seeing a lot of "CLASSIC" Dewitt capsules. But maybe not. Gotta keep it fresh...